“How did “we” tolerate it?”
The same way you tolerate anything. You make excuses for why doing what would need to be done to rid yourself of the thing is too hard, or you’ll do it later, or you can leave it for someone else to do, etc. Eventually you adapt to the new normal and forget about it, at least most of the time.
And no, venting on the internet, or dreaming “we’ll vote em out next time”, or “the military will save us” doesn’t count as “not tolerating it”.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.Like I said, a divided and deceived populace will never come together to achieve such goals. And such division always comes from the top. Nobody has been more expert at dividing than the EU. So to stop utter disaster requires leadership, or else things will come to the point like in 1984 where the Party didn’t even fear the notion of the proles rising up against them, deeming them unable to.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.