# What percentage of revolutions actually improve things? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-revolutions-actually-improve-things/927402 "2020-12-06T19:16:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-revolutions-actually-improve-things/927402/9 "2020-12-06T22:21:01Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > I’m thinking the American revolution turned out pretty well. It’s even debatable whether the American revolution really made things better: > [@If the US Lost the Revolutionary War - Better Off Now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-us-lost-the-revolutionary-war-better-off-now/924861): > > I have no great knowledge of American history, but recently my husband commented that the US would be a better country if we had lost the Revolutionary War. It sounded like a cool idea for a GD thread. What do you think? Presumably slavery would have been abolished sooner, and maybe we would have more social programs in place? Can we assume we would be subject to the same laws as England? Could something like the Civil War even happen? Would we have such stark division between the North and the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-revolutions-actually-improve-things/927402)._