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If the people in America that are alive today made up the generation that fought the revolutionary war, do you think there would still have been a revolution?

MrControversy 7 Apr 10
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Yes. Because to produce the war required specific historical conditions which also determined the nature of the people.
If you mean the people today enculturated as they are, then the conditions that produced their enculturation would preclude the war.

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If it happened today pro rata 40 million people would die

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That's an unfair question. The times are what help to make the person who they are.

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There are several generations alive today - the question is too broad. If you narrow it down to those born before or after the 1980's I think my answer would be "yes" to those born before the 80's - "no" for those born after the 80's.

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Yes. Although a modern revolution may take a different form.

Taxation without representation, referred to the fact the East India Company was granted a "Royal Monopoly" and did not have to pay taxes, but the small business person did. A lot of the revolution was based on laws favoring the rich and heavily taxing the working people, and there was a great lack of opportunity for a person to better his position.

We have gotten to a very similar position in modern times. The "trickle down" con has shifted the tax burden away from the rich and onto working people.

That sound you hear is spellcheck dying of exhaustion

@Comrade_Yam he has vision problems

Well now I feel like a jerk.... I'm sorry ☹️

@Comrade_Yam Don't worry about it. I try to check for typos, but after an hour or so on the computer, I check less and less. I also have a dexterity problem caused my an auto immune disorder which causes me to have a lot of typos. My typing has gotten worse as I have been getting older... sigh.

I actually found your first comment to be pretty funny. When you can't help some problems you jut have to laugh at them.

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Yes,There Is Still No Equality & Freedom For Many.

Coldo Level 8 Apr 10, 2018
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I think you will have to give more details about your premise. Would these people have been raised in that time? This would make a big difference.

I tend to think that each successive generation is better than the previous though. It’s an unpopular opinion.

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Given the years approaching 1775, how would modern Americans have responded to the reduction in cost of tea and rise in taxation (without representation) to pay for a war to prevent them from becoming French? The colonnies were a huge place and expensive to Police from London. Would the action have turned into a series of major peaceful protests?
Another thing to think on, is there would be no concept of the Constitution.

"Another thing to think on, is there would be no concept of the Constitution"

Ooohhh!! Does that mean we could impose gun control on you colonials....

(Runs and hides..... 😉 )

Scotland is not a colony...even if I have sort of colonised a small part of it! LOL

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Read Crucible of War by Fred Anderson. That books sets up a lot of the viewpoints of British after French Indian War and Financial hardships they encountered getting French out of way for colonists to expand. It argues French and Indian War set stage for a lot future dominoes to fall.

I was enlightening a lecturer at college as to the causes of the French Revolution - poor fellow had to cover a class. Which drew its roots from the Seven Years War, and French & Indian war, then fighting the American Revolution cost France dearly, leading onto strife for the populace. Inspired by the colonists defeat of the crown, the masses rose up and created a republic. Meanwhile, Britain found that India was a better profit making proposition, than the colonies.

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The people that were leading the revolution were not actually trying to create a revolution at first.

With that being said, I think it should be pointed out that there is a lot of myths about the revolution and about the founder's. Some of the leaders were cool, but you have a lot of assholes too. There are a lot of people in the US that have turn the founder's into some kind of ancestor worship. I'm not sure how many times I've hear people quote a founder thinking that it should end the debate. Often misquoting!

JeffB Level 6 Apr 10, 2018
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I wouldn't have lifted a finger because regardless of would I have won i still wouldn't have my freedom.

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There would probably be a new one seeing how the republicans choose to ignore certain parts of the Consitution especally relating to religion.It is ashame how our politics has become so degraded and unworkable that no one works for the good of the country but for the good of the corporations and the wealthy.

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Well, it would have been a very short one, with AK-47 and all.

Very true

Indeed, the defeat of the Revolution by superior British and German forces and equipment and training would have seen to that. Russian supplied AK47s, RPGs T-55s and the occasional Mig 23 would have been outclassed quickly! LOL

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The gen-x's and millenials-sel-f entitled and technology addicted-don't think so.

Generation fighter!!!!

Ok, let's review. Baby-boomers destroyed the environment and the economy. Went to collage for almost nothing compared to now. Wages were higher even for bad jobs.
But we make excuses and text to much and we are sorry about that.

@JeffB Way to stand up against what l believe are unfounded perceptions against these younger generations. As l have said before on this site, our generation blew it BIG TIME!

@Sticks48 lol, I was largerly joking. Though I think there is some truth to generational trends, I think they say almost nothing about an individual. But if people want to play the generation blame game, it's fun, I'll play.

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That's hard to answer, but my gut says I don't think so. Most of what the south was fighting for back then doesn't hold true today.

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That prospect is entirely too appalling to even consider.
I'm grateful it's not even a possibility.

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