Not every revolution is successful, and further to the point, not every revolution is true to its cause for that revolution. A case in point is that the revolutionary document that the colony representatives signed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to was the Declaration of Independence. That Declaration had the upmost relevancy back in 1776, and should still have the upmost relevancy for all of us, today.
The problem with this country today is that it does not truly honor that Declaration of Independence. To wit, in that Declaration, we read: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies…" and further: "He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power." America has not had a congressional declared war since World War II, yet it is always at what is for all intents and purposes: war; or it is taking war to such amorphous beings as "global terrorism", in which, the United States doesn't just have a standing army, but rather has a massive global military footprint as well as a truly gargantuan military budget, of which its "defense" expenditure is more than half of its discretionary federal budget, and subsequently represents in total as reported by nationalpriorities.org, "37 percent of the total…" military expenditures worldwide, of which the United States population is not even 5% of the world, at large. Further, it doesn't seem to matter who the Chief Executive in the White House is, or the makeup of the legislature, for the military and its unelected leaders, seemingly gets its way, every single time, thereby making the technology-industrial-military complex effectively superior to civil power.
Our Declaration broke our bonds from hereditary aristocracy, yet, today, America has developed its own unique aristocracy, established by not only the incredible power and wealth of today's everlasting transnational corporations, but also in particular with dynasties such as the Bush family, the Walton family, the Koch family, the Rockefeller family, the Kennedy family, and the Mars family. These corporations and families are able to not just maintain their power and influence generation by generation but often continue to augment it, because the money and assets that they control and own are not effectively taxed, thereby leaving these dynasties with even more money and even more power.
Further, the whole purpose of establishing our independence from Great Britain was to establish a government of, for, and by the people, under the consent of those people and for the benefit of the people. Instead, as time has gone by, this government has morphed into being a power unto itself, answerable only to those that control it, and primarily for the benefit of those select and privileged few, and always at the expense of the many. Rather than being transparent and answerable to the people, today's government is opaque, secretive, and oppressive, for it primarily sees the people only as entities that should be obedient to the government, and fully compliant thereby to the government's decrees.
The iron hand of British aristocracy at the expense of its loyal subjects; in addition to the heavy boots of oppression and unjust taxation against its American colonies, led to the revolution of those subjects, of which, the abiding objective of that revolution was to see that each citizen of this new government, would be an equal member of it, with a voice, with freedom, and with the liberty to pursue happiness as those people so saw fit. Today, that dream is effectively in shatters, for this government and its agents are the new aristocracy, signifying that the new boss is so much the same as the old boss.