I really hate people (from the left, right and centre) being edgy and trying to reinterpret the Revolution as between two equally bad forces or whatever, or even (vomit) argue that the British tyranny was somehow the better force. Undoubtedly the American Revolution was an amazing thing, and even if some of the Founders were ultimately hypocritical (and shortsighted in some cases); it became a rallying call for what we would now refer to as the "left". Ignore the legacy of the men of the Enlightenment at your peril, leftists.
This, a thousand times over. Suffice to say, any narrative that portrays a mercantilist, imperialist monarchy as some sort of force for 'progressive social equity' in the eighteenth century is at best derived from a woefully incomplete understanding of this period of history.
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