Strange, how us Americans have yet to revolt against our government? Perhaps my desire to see the people topple the authoritarian government that is the Biden administration isn't as initially shared among my peers as I surmised. If we look at the history of revolutions, they were supported by dissident elites (people like Trump) and enacted by dissident military leaders (people like Flynn). Honestly, we are about set for a revolution, but the real question is, what are we waiting for?
How far are we going to allow DC to intrude and take control of our lives before we've actually had enough?
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Yes taxes, and the fact that colonists were paying for a British army that, at the starting point, was marching to Concord to seize the militia's arms. If I'm remembering correctly, the tea the patriots dumped into Boston Harbor was the main taxed item.
In the South, on top of the taxes was the fact that farmers were in debt to companies in Britain. They were forced to sell their products to England and take overpriced English products in exchange, leaving them with huge and growing debt burdens.
Maybe we need to bring back the colonial taverns. That's where they were meeting and getting themselves mobilized.
I think a huge factor is how people have been terrorized by the aftermath of Jan. 6. I believe the main point was to make people afraid to protest.
I know. There was government, even out here in what was the frontier at the time, through the churches and the far away state governments. But, yes, people didn't wait around for somebody from days away to come and fix things.
(One set of my great-grandparents were married by a pastor whose circuit started two colonies away and so couples had to wait many months to get married.)