>>The American “Revolution” wasn’t a revolution.
It truly was a revolution because it was a revolution in thought. Self-governance that could work on a scalable level had never been done before. A nation of truly Protestant Puritan ethics had never been done before.
Every other revolution has just been a way for new people to take the power from the old people to control the same people as before.
I don’t agree with that. England was already well on the road to “self-governing”; Parliament was largely independent of the King. The American colonies finished the job for themselves. We seceded from the Empire. The Declaration of Independence does not express thoughts that were not already current in 1775. The forms of government in the States, in 1789 were not fundamentally different from their colonial predecessors.
In contrast, Revolutions (France, USSR, PRC, Third Reich, etc.) present a complete overthrow of the old order.