Tomorrow: The American Revolution really didn't need to happen.

[milestogo]

Our genius president will explain it all to us soon.

[still_one]

1. Those behind Brexit would like that

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. It probably didn't.

And if it hadn't, the US Civil War wouldn't have happened (slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1833) and the wholesale dispossession of Native Americans also probably wouldn't have happened (one of the grievances of colonists was that His Majesty's Government forbade them settling west of a line defined by treaty) and the colonies would have eventually gained independence anyway (cf Canada).

[Wounded Bear]

5. I have always figured that one reason for the Revolution...

at least in the Southern states, was the active abolitionist movement in England in the late 1700's. They knew it was coming, so the separation from the mother country was a way to keep the institution in place.

[white_wolf]

6. I've often wondered if the U.S. wouldn't be a better country if the revolution hadn't occurred.

Obviously, it's impossible to know how such an event would change things, but the issues were, as you point out, much more complicated than "FREEDOM!"

[Demtexan]

3. He lives in only little world

He never read a history book.

[charlyvi]

4. Yeah. King George

should have made a deal.

[Mountain Mule]

7. Woodrow Wilson would have stopped it

Too bad he got killed in the Bowling Green Massacre in 1750 before he had a chance to start the League of Nations. Had Wilson survived Bowling Green, Jefferson would never have gone rogue and written the Declaration of Independence.

[Initech]

8. If Fox News had been around during the revolutionary war, we'd be under British rule.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Trump could have negotiated a better Marshall Plan

with Germany paying the entire costs of the war to the U.S., U.K., Poland, U.S.S.R, etc.

Plus they'd have to build a Trump tower in the middle of Berlin.