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TheCyborgNinja posted...

Honestly, America would've possibly been better off in the long run if it had either stayed British or let the South secede (slavery was going to end on its own anyway, even General Lee opposed it. Then there are the economic factors from European powers frowning on it and the North being the industrialized portion of the country, undoubtedly leading to internal strife - the mother of all collapse).

The electoral college is stupid because it devalues the votes of one demographic to favour another now. At its inception it made sense, now it just lets the rural conservative Christians have a larger say than is fair. The majority isn't spoken for. It's a sham. The popular vote corroborates this.

/opinion

There's no benefit to staying British and the North/South divide wouldn't necessarily improve politics today since the mid-west typically votes conservative. It's not like there's a solid block connecting the liberal parts of the country together like there is for the conservative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

The bigger issue is that the federal government is all-encroaching -- which it was NEVER intended to be -- so federal politics has seeped into most facets of our lives. Taxation also wasn't nearly this crazy because, for most of the US's existence, there either wasn't a federal income tax or the income tax was negligible (because we got most of it off tariffs, which protected US labor at the same time). Worse still, we pay in absurd amounts of time and essentially those tax dollars are used to deprive citizens of rights and states of autonomy.
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