OK, we’ll bite: why was the American Revolution a mistake, Vox?

When a cause is opposed by the two most vulnerable groups in a society, it's probably a bad idea. https://t.co/H5eUt3tBmS
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 4, 2018

Dylan Matthews explains:
… 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…

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