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I'm sick and tired of it being called the 'American Revolution'. More like the "American under new management".
The rebellion was started over taxes to pay for a war, and the first thing the new government did was put down a rebellion started over taxes to pay for the war. We just traded one George for another and saved Americans from the subjugation and horror suffered by Canadians and Australians.
The truth is that England defeated all the European powers that could threaten the colonies and America said thanks for defending us, it's made you weak and us strong, now guess what?
The French, the Haitians, and the Bolsheviks knew how to throw a proper revolution.
The Haitian revolt while initially successful led to nothing but utter tragedy and disaster that continues to affect the country to this day. France extorted them into a debt that couldn't possibly be paid, and multiple other parties (including American banks that still currently exist) got in on the action. Haiti overthrew its slave masters and broke their chains only to spend most of its history with its former master's boot on its throat.
I'm sorry but I'm going to need a credible source from you to backup this claim and more clarification and context
I think that was satire and they were saying that Canadians and Australians ended up with better governance by gaining their independence via peaceful means rather than violent ones.
IE: When your founding narrative is the violence is the answer to problems, you continue to govern that way. When it is that peaceful negotiations that achieved independence, you continue to govern that way.
USA: presidents assassinated 4 and 2 more wounded in failed attempts.
Canadian PMs assassinated: Zero.
Australian PMs assassinated: Zero
The heroic American revolution: a terrorist campaign by slaveowning religious lunatics considered too extreme for society, offended by paying less than their share of a war fought on their behalf, who then immediately allied with the country that war was fought against.
Said newly birthed country then went on to commit a genocidal psychopathic blitz through an entire continent wiping out 99.9% of the native population justified by religious insanity.
Hell yeah.
I was wondering what's the principal reason is that USA is so fucked up today. Clearly the main issue there is that they think USA is the best country in the world. This isolates them from the rest of the world, stops them from leaning from other countries, makes them unable to recognize their own faults and prevents them from ever improving their system. So economically the country is doing fine but the society is (and always has been) completely dysfunctional. But why? It clearly started with the revolution and myth that it was such a heroic fight for freedom but why were the American colonizers so susceptible to those lies? Why Canadians or Australians didn't fall for it?