3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake

[Steinlight]

Vox, once again on point with this article. How can you argue with this?

Here is the intro:

This July 4th, I'm celebrating by taking a plane from the US to the United Kingdom. The timing wasn't intentional, but I embrace the symbolism. American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake. We should be mourning the fact that we left the United Kingdom, not cheering it.

Of course, evaluating the wisdom of the American Revolution means dealing with counterfactuals. As any historian would tell you, this is messy business. We obviously can't be entirely sure how America would have fared if it had stayed in the British Empire longer, perhaps gaining independence a century or so later, along with Canada.

But I'm reasonably confident a world where the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons: slavery would've been abolished earlier, American Indians would've faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government that makes policymaking easier and lessens the risk of democratic collapse.

The rest of the article is here, I put the summary of his points in bold above.

3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake - Vox


Can anyone argue against these points? I dare anyone to challenge the Dylan Matthew's claims in this article. Very thought provoking piece that challenges the feel good and false narrative on which the US was founded.

 

[ScienceRocks]

1. Who cares about the nigga. Seriously...I wish Lincoln would of lived so we could of fixed our mistake with deportations of the nigga.

2. I highly doubt the native American would of agreed to any of our terms. It is quite likely America wouldn't of expanded very much or at least much slower. Sometimes you have to demand it!!! Maybe with time the white man and the native American would of worked out some system of government that we could of both agreed with.

3. I agree with the last one...Laws would of been easier to pass and would of been more democratic. Of course, the constitution would of had to be more defined in order to protect the first and second amendment from the much faster system.

 

[westwall]

The argument fails immediately when one looks at the actions of one Right Honorable Lord Jeffrey Amherst. He actively considered using smallpox infected blankets to kill hostile Indians. So no. The US avoided two hundred years of Class warfare. The US advanced farther, faster because we were a Republic. Far from perfect, but far better than England.

Amherst and Smallpox

 

[Wyatt earp]

Once again vox is full of it, GB didn't abolish slavery till 2009

 

[S.J.]

The second one won't be a mistake.

 

[Steinlight]

The argument fails immediately when one looks at the actions of one Right Honorable Lord Jeffrey Amherst. He actively considered using smallpox infected blankets to kill hostile Indians. So no. The US avoided two hundred years of Class warfare. The US advanced farther, faster because we were a Republic. Far from perfect, but far better than England.

Amherst and Smallpox

He may have "considered" it. But the White Americans carried out these acts of biological warfare without impunity. As for class warfare, the United Kingdom has far less of a wealth disparity due to the fact that their superior parliamentary system allows for labor and socialist interests to be represented.

 

[Steinlight]

I expect the defense of this racist, sexist, and hypercapitalist slave system the US was founded on from right wingers. But I am very disappointed by the degree of weak ass whitesplaining from so called liberals.

 

[Picaro]

A pile of nonsense, of which I will get to when I get bored elsewhere and have nothing to do.

 

[Steinlight]

A pile of nonsense, of which I will get to when I get bored elsewhere and have nothing to do.

I'd like to see that. What exactly are your credentials again?

 

[westwall]

The argument fails immediately when one looks at the actions of one Right Honorable Lord Jeffrey Amherst. He actively considered using smallpox infected blankets to kill hostile Indians. So no. The US avoided two hundred years of Class warfare. The US advanced farther, faster because we were a Republic. Far from perfect, but far better than England.

Amherst and Smallpox

He may have "considered" it. But the White Americans carried out these acts of biological warfare without impunity. As for class warfare, the United Kingdom has far less of a wealth disparity due to the fact that their superior parliamentary system allows for labor and socialist interests to be represented.

He only didn't carry it through because they couldn't figure out how to accomplish it. There is evidence in the link I provided that they actually DID make the attempt.