I was in a Nike store this weekend. I heard a part-time employee say:
Guy: "Man...I'm only here for 25 hours. That barely pays for gas. If gas gets any higher, it wont even be worth it to come in. I'll just quit."
Me: "People gonna flip shit if they can't get to work to pay their bills."
Guy: "Hell yea we are!"
People in the back nod.
I don't travel very far for work, so I never thought how hard inflation is hitting people who travel across town, let alone people who don't get much above minimum wage.
The powder keg leans forward a little further...stock up!
The schools I'm around still talk about the other components, and I'm in a notoriously "blue state."
I think people in general just like the Boston tea party story, the fact that the tea party movement named itself that shows that patriot lore likes to focus on the stories rather than the actual (and more boring) legislation, order, and decrees the king had set which sparked the Boston Tea Party and the revolution in general.
The Boston Massacre and the patriot's usage of propaganda techniques in how they depicted it (a row of soldiers firing execution style at colonists) and spreading the message via printing press and the likes were also huge components of what caused the revolution.