The British model was better, but hundreds of years ago it was simply impossible for the King to keep control across an entire ocean. That only works when there is a tremendous gap in competency (like the colonization of Africa, where one side had factories and the other was still in the Stone Age.) It wasn't like that between Britain and the colonies, Britain had only a small advantage in technology.
Independence of the colonies was good and appropriate. It is good for local government to deal with local problems, and it happened at the right time too.
Where the USA "went wrong" is by instituting a republic. Had each colony instead elected their own Lord/King/Governor then we'd live in a very different world right now.
Here's a good example - notice how it was relatively easy for Brexit to happen? Yes, there was a lot of whining, but because the EU does not operate under this illusion of representing some unified body of people, the nations within are largely free to come and go. Compare that to our American Civil War, where secession resulted in the death of 4% of able-bodied men in the country.
And keep in mind, the British Empire ended their involvement in the slave trade in 1807. Sixty years before us, and without a war, and today they don't have the sort of social problems we still experience along racial lines.
We shall see how much longer this accident of history can persist. But basically, the governmental structure of the USA allows for insane overreaches and abuses without providing much benefit to the people living within. The structure essentially exists to allow old money coastal elites to exploit and exert control over the entire continent.
The founding of the USA was a fluke in history.
The British model was better, but hundreds of years ago it was simply impossible for the King to keep control across an entire ocean. That only works when there is a tremendous gap in competency (like the colonization of Africa, where one side had factories and the other was still in the Stone Age.) It wasn't like that between Britain and the colonies, Britain had only a small advantage in technology.
Independence of the colonies was good and appropriate. It is good for local government to deal with local problems, and it happened at the right time too.
Where the USA "went wrong" is by instituting a republic. Had each colony instead elected their own Lord/King/Governor then we'd live in a very different world right now.
Here's a good example - notice how it was relatively easy for Brexit to happen? Yes, there was a lot of whining, but because the EU does not operate under this illusion of representing some unified body of people, the nations within are largely free to come and go. Compare that to our American Civil War, where secession resulted in the death of 4% of able-bodied men in the country.
And keep in mind, the British Empire ended their involvement in the slave trade in 1807. Sixty years before us, and without a war, and today they don't have the sort of social problems we still experience along racial lines.
We shall see how much longer this accident of history can persist. But basically, the governmental structure of the USA allows for insane overreaches and abuses without providing much benefit to the people living within. The structure essentially exists to allow old money coastal elites to exploit and exert control over the entire continent.