No the American Revolution was not a scam. First it set up the Continental Congresses with Presidents under a confederation. That didn't pan out to well, so they had another Constitutional Convention and set up the current Republic with Washington as the first President of the current Republic.

It wasn't Nepoleon that screwed us. The Roman Catholic Church sided with the South because they saw an ever growing threat of the United States being a real power on the World stage. It was France that helped us out in both the Revolution and the Civil War. France remember arrested the Pope in 1798.

The American Republic is a real thing. It is one of a kind. What has happened is the central banks have become more and more powerful. That is the issue. First and Second national banks taken down by Old Hickory himself. Then there was another one memory escapes me. Then the Federal Reserve. That was mostly gotten under control by Franklin Roosevelt and he gave us breathing space and regulated banks and kept the Fed under control. That kind of control was done away with in 1971 by Richard Nixon when he took away the Federal Government's ability to use gold as a standard to keep our currency stable. This was the start of the financialization of everything that FDR got rid of, and by 1981 Ronald Reagan just open the doors to a bonanza. Thus were we are today.