Amen! perfect post cripplecreek;)
People really do need to look at the history leading up to the revolution.
The colonists spent decades trying to negotiate and deal with the British who they didn’t see as enemies till the war came. Men like Ben Franklin were expressing their loyalty to Britain right up till the the war broke out. Deals were repeatedly made and broken and the Boston Massacre finally showed the colonists where they stood.
Mitt Romney, the Young guns support of Dick Lugar and other issues might just be our Boston Massacre moment.