It isn’t. But... notice how FEW people here are making that point.
There’s the problem. Most are so used to it that they would absolutely refuse to think of tar/feathering a bureaucrat or tossing their light bulbs in the bay...
Much less taking up arms after a “long train of abuses and usurpations”...
Not enough people have yet thoroughly had it with the Union government. Wonder what it will take?