Posted on 07/03/2016 10:50:12 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
This July 4, let's not mince words: 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 a 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 in which 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
This article makes me sad.
You keep sitting on your ass voting for these people America.
What do you want me to say?
This person is an idiot.
The world today would look nothing like it does without the inspiration of what happened July 4, 1776
Why, hell! Just move to England and voila, problem solved.
Neoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..................
........................I don’t think so.
If Dylan Matthews likes England so much, he should move there. “Traitor-minded” people like him go against the grain of the American spirit. Our Founding Fathers gave their all for him to have the freedom to spew his hate.
Disgusting. Who is that, English Bob? My ancestors had an answer for him ... at Bloody Angle!
Way too kind. An outright retromingent fool is saying it better.
Only for commie, rock sucking libtards.
What is this stupid blog and whatever possessed you to mis-post this under News?
The biggest thing that happened was the exile of all the Tories. This basically removed the old-line conservative element from the country, which set the stage for an extremely radical republic during the 1789-1820 period.
Vox.com. It’s a division of Daily Kos.
Open ridicule is needed for idiots like this Vox writer. Google his image... what a dork.
"Dylan Matthews is one of the staff members at Vox, an online media venture along with Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell, and Matthew Yglesias. Matthews is the son of Jim Matthews, creator of Fetch"
"Vox writer Dylan Matthews called for President Obama to “unilaterally” ban Americans from owning gun on June 16, 2016."
Yes.
A blog.
Not News.
Dylan Matthews should make you sad! This biased illiterate works for VOX, a so called news site where history is abused as a resume enhancement.
One of the VOX editors: Emmett Rensin, writer and editor at Vox, was suspended June 3 for encouraging people to incite riots, engage in violence, and destroy property at Donald Trump rallies.
It turns out, the suspension lasts for only a week and is actually paid.
If you are looking for truth, avoid VOX like the POX!
In other words, we wouldn’t have the Democrat Party.
Oh goody....a spoiled brat who went to Harvard and thinks he knows something
His parents failed him. His university failed him. His employer has failed him
I guess the English treatment of the Scots, Irish and Welsh don’t count. Things done all over the world are only bad if the evil Americans did them.
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