>>8018285That is not what the Revolution was about at all. It was not 'corruption' it was in principle a disagreement over the colonies not having enough autonomy and a say in their own political affairs. 'No taxation without representation'. The British crown was no more oppressive then that it had been, it is just they were pissed about having to have a heavy tax burden to help pay for the war with the French which happened in the Colonies. The 'oppression' was just standard dealing with rebel stuff which the US did to it's own people during, shortly, and in the long term, after the Revolution.
In practical reality, it was a number of rich landowning powerful US aristocracy (as in same rich families that exist back in Britain) that were mad they couldn't have some power control there and realised they would be far wealthier without the Crown's taxation. Ordinary people were dragged along into it and it was never their intention to have anything like universal suffrage or the modern sense of 'equality'. And they violated their own ideals of self-determination in a free collection of states by fighting an atrocious high-casualty oppressive war when the South tried to succeed. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa - none of these countries that remained under the 'oppressive and corrupt' Crown had to undergo such heinous suffering and self-murder against their own principles.
Not that the ideals of the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment that were the basis of thought of the founding fathers aren't laudable or good, but this is a silly myth. Canada right next to the US wasn't horribly oppressed and did fine, slowly coming away as the British Empire wound down.
