Independence Day
This is the day we celebrate having broken away from our mother country, Great Britain. Was it such a good idea? I suspect so but wonder if any of the major issues in our history would have been different.
Obviously, GB would have needed to recognize us as a more independent colony, a colony that had earned a say in how we were taxed and governed. You don’t dump a bunch of criminals and unwanted third- and fourth-born sons, and adventurers in the middle of nowhere with little, or no, support, ignore them for a couple of generations and then say, “We are your mother country, you have to do what we say.” The absentee parent doesn’t get to walk back into a child’s life just so the child can support the errant parent.
So, if GB had given us room to run, we still would have had slavery, we still would have had the Native American genocide, we still would have had the westward expansion but I wonder how those events might have been different with only local governors instead of a president.
Just thinking.