• Mantzy81@aussie.zone
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    8 hours ago

    If the Brits had never lost the US, it would now be a similar country to the other anglosphere countries i.e. much more stable and normal with a parliamentary system. Wouldn’t necessarily not have a president - there are former colonies with Presidents but they still work with a parliamentary system. The States could still have their own governments and have their own rules, and a federal government too (like Australia). You could still celebrate an independence day - when you severed ties from being British subjects (like in Australia - also same day the first fleet arrived in Botony Bay and set up the internment camp so it’s “invasion day” to the First Nations folk understandably) or when you signed a treaty with the indigenous folks (NZ) or when you decided to become a confederation of states (Canada). Honestly it would’ve been great to have kept the US in the British Empire for longer as you’d have kept the British sense of humour.