In an article that would have been well-suited for The Babylon Bee, the laughably stuffy publication The New Yorker posed the novel question of whether or not the American Revolution was a good thing. Seriously.
The tweet is new, but the article isn't (it's from 2017), but for some reason The New Yorker thought it would be a great idea to remind everyone that it hates America.
Actually hates it.
And what if it was a mistake from the start? The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America — what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices and madness of American life since then have occurred not in spite of the virtues of the Founding Fathers but because of them?
Ah, yes, nothing like having a prestigious American magazine wondering if the founding of the very country that paved the way for its existence and the freedom of its writers to be blithering morons was a "mistake."
What does The New Yorker wish America could be? Canada, of course.
Look north to Canada, or south to Australia, and you will see different possibilities of peaceful evolution away from Britain, toward sane and whole, more equitable and less sanguinary countries. No revolution, and slavery might have ended, as it did elsewhere in the British Empire, more peacefully and sooner. No 'peculiar institution,' no hideous Civil War and appalling aftermath. Instead, an orderly development of the interior — less violent, and less inclined to celebrate the desperado over the peaceful peasant. We could have ended with a social-democratic commonwealth that stretched from north to south, a near-continent-wide Canada.
Yeah, well, it worked!
Social media users quickly relegated the argument to the internet's dustbin, where it belongs.
That's the grand solution to the American problem. "We could have been Canada."
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