Only worse, as political humorist P.J. O'Rourke Points out:
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.
We declared independence from Great Britain only to do the same thing some 200 years later.
Only worse, as political humorist P.J. O'Rourke Points out: