Unpopular opinion, in the U.K. at least:

When the American Revolution was won, it should have spread back to the U.K., and we should have dragged royalty and aristocracy out of their palaces into the streets and hung them from the nearest tree for mass corruption at the detriment of the country.

Only 3% benefited from empire. The rest of us mined their coal, farmed their food, worked from childhood to early graves in their factories or died of diseases garrisoning their possessions abroad.

Look at me writing a political post. Never thought I’d see the day.

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SatyrService · M

They did, In 1642
what a world it might have been

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War

but you probably know more about it than I
Most Americans don't even know that happened

[quote]The rest of us mined their coal, farmed their food, worked from childhood to early graves in their factories or died of diseases garrisoning their possessions abroad.
[/quote] You got this right!

WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M

@SatyrService Sadly we didn’t. Even the parliamentarians were aristocrats who enriched themselves on what they took from the royalists.

SatyrService · M

@WintaTheAngle I’ve been listening to a multipart podcast, about the English Civil War. Like most of my country men here in the US I had no idea the depth and impact of those events. Many of the people who fled to the colonies, were themselves on the losing side of the Civil War. And like you say they’re all bunch of Aristo’s anyway. It’s no wonder when it was over they put A crown head pack in charge. It was a travesty. Many of America’s so-called founding fathers, we’re better educated than we are now. They understood the perils of royalty and put a stop to every attempt to create one here