A pox on both their Houses.
I read 1776 recently, a great balanced historic representation of the facts. Your quote sums up why the revolution happened. Leaders don’t learn from history. Americans under English rule had the best of all worlds. Cheap land, low taxes (respectively compared to England’s themselves) abundance in natural resources, intellectual brilliance and enjoyment of life as a whole. BUT... Those of the brave saw through this illusion for what it was, slow but sure slide into tyranny.
All the Americans wanted was a couple of states to have an American governor to a British counterpart as those states had begun getting hit with unfair law dictated to them.
Most states already had this fair arrangement or Britich/American counterparts which was working very well.
When it was requested and it reached King George’s ears that their was white resistance such as demonstrations, he made a choice of pulling all of the American governor counterparts in all states and this started the revolution.
My history book in 8th grade talked much about the Boston Tea Party and ‘Taxation without Representation’. Truth is, when leadership stops listening you get noise and white resistance from the population. When leadership uses aballpoint hammer to quell the white resistance you then get physical resistance from the population. We are in the white resistanse phase and coming close to the physical strage if change does not occur. I hope the leadership in Washington gets this memo in time.