Happy Independence Day America. Was a revolutionary war a mistake, a misunderstanding that we could have glossed over?

That is today's big topic on right angle brought to by the members of Bill Whittle.com. I'm Steve Green, and with me, Bill Whittle and of course Scott Ott.

Gentlemen, one of my favorite bloggers, a retired Navy officer named, well, we don't actually know his name for various

reasons.

Guy about my age, he goes by a gnome to plume, nomad a blog, Commander Salamander, and he's

just, he's one of my favorite reads.

He published a piece today on his substack, arguing that the revolution might not have needed to happen.

He's not endorsing this, by the way.

But he notes a couple of things to make an interesting setup.

He says, especially in the southern colonies, many wanted nothing to do with the revolution,

and a large part of the British forces fighting North America, were loyal militia,

many of whom, of course, became

Canadians after the war, even though Canada wasn't quite a thing yet. And there was a time,

he writes, at the start of the fighting, even at the start of the fighting, that there was room for

political compromise, but a lot of the goodwill, of course, have been burned up over the last,

the previous 10 years, and it wouldn't have been easy, but it also wouldn't have been impossible had perhaps Parliament and the King in London been a little more far-sighted.

Scott, you're our resident expert in matters revolutionary and constitutional.

Okay, what passes for an expert around here?

And what do you think about this idea?

Pretty low bar.

What do you think about this idea that had the leadership in London been a little more far-sighted,

we could be something more like Australia,

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