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> the US is fairly unique in history for pioneering peaceful transfer of power without violence. The US inherited much of its political culture from that of En
by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the US is fairly unique in history for pioneering peaceful transfer of power without violence.
The US inherited much of its political culture from that of England (not to say that the US didn't innovate heavily and positively on top of that heritage).
Would you say that England / the UK has had less of a history of peaceful transferring of power since American independence, or since the US Civil War?
You can say that the UK has faced violent opposition to its rule in Northern Ireland, but it would seem more reasonable to equate that to attacks like 9/11 in the US.
- cool_dude85 4y agoIf you go back to the civil war in the US, you'd also be going back to violent opposition to its rule in what's now the Republic of Ireland, its genocide in Kenya, the collapse of the British Empire in general. It's true that (as in America) the metropole has been relatively peaceful in the UK, but outside of that it's pretty grim.
- dane-pgp 4y agoI think that's some reasonable context, thank you, even though it would require quite a leap to make the claim that it was the "pretty grim" actions in the Empire that enabled the peaceful transfer of power in the metropole. (It could equally be the case, for example, that peace back home allowed the Empire to flourish enough to lead to the inevitable grim outcomes).