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Oh, some more of the left wing media finding something else to be sensitive about. Here is a liberal from Vox and his take on why the American Independence was a mistake. Thinks the British would have ended slavery and provided a better form of government. What say ye?
Dylan Matthews of Vox appears to be lamenting our independence since we would have abolished slavery sooner, the Native Americans would have experienced a slightly less horrific genocide, and we would have adopted the UK’s system of government, which is totally better than America’s (coding to liberals) because it allows the governing party to bulldoze over its opponents to push through their agenda (unless it’s a question about the EU):
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.....snip~
Vox: On Second Thought, The American Revolution Was A Mistake - Matt Vespa
Oh it's just armchair quarterbacking a "what if" scenario. His thesis is linked to our problematic history and he;s under the impression that we could have done better "if". I don't find it to be necessarily liberal writing: "what if the south had won?", "what if we had not gone to war with Germany?". Social studies is full of questions like that. His thesis isn't anti patriotic either, it's just a delay scenario. For instance, what IF the crown had allowed Hamilton and other American - non noble industrialists to participate in the government that was running their system? Would we have avoided revolution? Would we still be British?
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