Yes the right wing of America today would have sided with the British at the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. It's hilarious to confront them with it. Two of my favorite topics to talk about with conservatives because when I inevitably lead them to dig into their position on the relevant subjects, I'll start describing these events while they maintain their positions and then name the events.

They know from their school days which side they are supposed to be on but cannot reconcile the fact that they aren't. Morons.

They could have. But they didn't. Just like the Jan 6 protestors.

The difference is that the Boston Tea Partiers were on the winning side of history. If the British had won the American Revolutionary War, then we'd be talking about those anti-social racists who ruined a bunch of tea because they were pissy about paying for it.

And if the Jan 6 terrorists had succeeded in overthrowing the government, future generations might end up learning about them as revolutionary heroes.

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.

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.

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?

According to Wikipedia it dissolved in 1874. In what form does it still exist?