I mean, we got treated better than any colony...
Th English even turned a blind eye to smuggling for a long time. But eventually they started wanting their tax money, so they confiscated a couple smugglers, drastically limiting their supply. While shipping a bunch of legal tea and selling it cheap to get people used to buying cheap tea in stores legally.
In response a bunch of smugglers paid some people to dress as Native Americans and throw the legal tea into the harbor. Because now all tea was in short supply, everyone raised prices and the smugglers were able to stay operating and even lobby France to pay for a proxy war and provide generals as a "fuck you" to the English, which was like the French's favorite pass time.
America was never about Americans tossing out a tyrant ruler.
Our country was founded on the rich dicking over the average American so they could accumulate more wealth and power personally.
If anyone actually wants some light reading on some of the the complex reasons the Colonies rebelled that isn't such crude reductionism;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts
Intolerable Acts is the most interesting read imo.
that isn’t such crude reductionism;
On a website most people make posts that are barely two sentences...
It never surprises me how often people bitch that I didn't cover ever single facet of an issue after typing paragrpaghs.
Like, my comments are already usually long enough people don't read it all, but I still always get these (incredible short) comments mad that I didn't spend two hours writing and sources my social media comments.
Not sure why you are getting down voted. This is pretty accurate. American history as taught in American schools is essentially indoctrination where all the bad parts are removed.
Many of the founding fathers were shitty people.
A while back some MAGoo posted about how immigrants were all criminals. Highly irate when I pointed out that 'indentured servants' were the gutter sweepings of England, and that France would forcibly make male colonists marry women imprisoned for prostitution.
To be pedantic, France offered the role as a colonist as an alternative to being locked up, on the stipulation that they take a prostitute with them as they leave.
The prisoners could have chosen to stay in jail instead.
This we surely offend the snowflakes in red dunce caps.
The word you're looking for is Tories. They are still alive and well in the UK.
I appreciate the sentiment of this, but it’s not quite right, at least in my view.
The founding fathers / revolution movement had some merit, don’t get me wrong, but it was also the movement of a bunch of drunk farmers and yuppies pouring molten tar on top of tax collectors simply for the crime of being a tax collector. They were much closer to the January 6th types in that way (though obviously a direct comparison can’t be made).
Sometimes you just can’t make a 1:1 comparison between the past and the present and I’m a firm believer that 18th century politics is a huge example of that. Things are just too complex and many issues don’t neatly align with what we consider party boundaries to be today.
No taxation
without!No. Taxation!
Honestly, those types definitely existed back then.
Now do it with the Civil war heroes, slavism and genocide.
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See, the joke is that modern conservatives would have supported the British control of the American colonies.
Which holds significant merit as during the war for independence, the most conservative families were Monarchists which insisted we return to British rule.
Several of those Monarchist families today make significant parts of the republican leadership.
