TL;DR: 1) Thank you for your prayers. 2) The true cause of the revolutionary was war not political. It was a revolt against the Bank of England' banking network, who sought to repay its subsidiary bank's bad debt by withdrawing funds from the American Colonies. At the same time, the English monarchy engaged in corporatism to protect the East India Company. Perhaps this banking crisis and open collaboration between the Crown and the EIC helped spur on the Founding Fathers?

Thank you all for your prayers for my mom's healing and my dad's repentance. My mom's Charcot foot was the least-bad that it could have been. The damage appeared to be localized towards the front of her foot, and she has gotten a good prognosis from her physician. There is still room for my father to improve, but that will happen in God's perfect timing. I can only pray.

Over Independence Day, I found a meme that mentioned shorting on margin as early as 1772 (1). Shorting is the market operation where a trader borrows (or promises to borrow) stock shares, and then sells those borrowed shares on the open market. This increased selling pressure reduces the associated corporation's stock valuation. A short-sale is completed, when the trader buys back the shares. This inverted use of the market ends in profit, if the trader buys the shorted-shares at a lower price than they sold. (For more information, please see reference #2.)

The banking house in question was run by the four men: Neale, James, Fordyce and Downe (3). One of the men, Alexander Fordyce, was a deceitful social climber. Based on some second hand info and cursory observations of the East India Company's management structure, he decided that his bank could make some profit by shorting the EIC. Unfortunately, his timing was poor, and he was trading on margin. (4, 5) Fordyce also failed to recognize that, through legislation, governments can prop up failing companies. (6) Fordyce's bad bet spread to Scottish Ayr bank, which was a significant lender of capital into the colonies. (1) The colonists, who relied on English capital to fund their ingress into America, began to suffer as the BoE's subsidiaries began to restrict credit lines. (7)

It is unlikely that the American colonists could have known of the cause of their investors' funds drying up. But America's founding Fathers would have likely known. After all, it is common knowledge that many of them were Masons. (8) As part of that brotherhood, they might have had access to the true cause of the colonial distress. And this event, coupled with the Stamp Act and the East India Company's privileged access to American markets, could have been what encouraged Samuel Adams (and the others) to orchestrate the Boston Tea Party. (9) After all, Thomas Jefferson knew. (10)

Today, our modern banking system is even more closely linked than it was in 1772-1773. (11) Modern hedge funds are repeating the mistakes of Fordyce, on a much larger scale. Perhaps GME is the people's modern-day version of England's East India Company.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_credit_crisis_of_1772%E2%80%931773

2. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100913/basics-short-selling.asp

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale,_James,_Fordyce_and_Downe

4. https://moneyweek.com/economy/people/601789/great-frauds-in-history-alexander-fordyce-and-shorting-the-east-india-company

5. https://globalhistory.org.uk/2021/05/in-search-of-the-first-domino/

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulating_Act_1773

7. https://ouramericanrevolution.org/index.cfm/page/view/m0177

8. https://freemasoninformation.com/masonic-education/famous/united-states-masonic-founding-fathers/

9. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-tea-party

10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_credit_crisis_of_1772%E2%80%931773#Effects_on_the_Thirteen_Colonies

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S3NLXBjJdQ

Edit: Clarified and corrected an aspect of the TL;DR.