This week's Mainstream Media Scream features a recent post about America's July 4th birthday from Vox.com that said America's Founding Fathers would have made a better decision supporting the British crown, not fighting for independence.

It was written by Vox's Dylan Matthews and headlined: "3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake." Our picks are normally from the prior week, but we missed this -- and shouldn't have.

Matthews argues that had the colonies remained under British control, slavery would have been abolished earlier, government would be more proactive, and calls for a carbon tax would have passed with ease.

Column argues that George Washington's fight for independence was a mistake. Via AP

An excerpt:

American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake. We should be mourning the fact that we left the United Kingdom, not cheering it...

I'm reasonably confident a world in which the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons: Slavery would've been abolished earlier, American Indians would've faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government that makes policymaking easier....

In the US, activists wanting to put a price on carbon emissions spent years trying to put together a coalition to make it happen, mobilizing sympathetic businesses and philanthropists and attempting to make bipartisan coalition — and they still failed to pass cap and trade, after millions of dollars and man hours. In the UK, the Conservative government decided it wanted a carbon tax. So there was a carbon tax. Just like that. Passing big, necessary legislation — in this case, legislation that's literally necessary to save the planet — is a whole lot easier with parliaments than with presidential systems....

And the efficiency of parliamentary systems enables larger social welfare programs that reduce inequality and improve life for poor citizens. Government spending in parliamentary countries is about 5 percent of GDP higher, after controlling for other factors, than in presidential countries. If you believe in redistribution, that's very good news indeed.

Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: "The very definition of Blame America First liberalism in the guise of 'explanatory journalism.' The U.S. never should have been created so it would be easier, 230 years or so later, for liberals to pass a carbon tax. How petty. Save Harvard University the embarrassment and never again allow their graduates into journalism."

Rating: Five out of five screams.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.