What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes Foreign to You?
The American Revolution Was a Culture War
Two hundred and forty-seven years ago this month, a group of American opponents of the Crown’s tax policy donned disguises and set about methodically destroying a shipment of tea imported into Boston by the East India Company. The vandals trespassed on privately owned ships in Boston Harbor and threw the tea into the ocean. These protesters were thorough. Not content with having destroyed most of the company’s imported tea that night, the activists later discovered another tea shipment which had been unloaded at a warehouse in Boston. The activists then broke into the warehouse and destroyed that tea, too. Total damages amounted to more than $1.5 million in today’s dollars.
This was the work of the Sons of Liberty, a group led in part by Samuel Adams and which would become known for acts of resistance, arson, and violence committed against tax collectors and other agents of the Crown. Notably, however, as time went on, acts of resistance in America escalated, at first into widespread mob violence, and then into military action and guerrilla warfare.
Why did many Americans either engage in this behavior or support it? The simplistic answer has long been that the colonists were angry that they were subjected to “taxation without representation.” This is the simplistic version of history often taught in grade school. The reality, of course, is that the conflict between the “Patriots” and their former countrymen eventually became a deeply seated (and violent) culture war.
It Wasn’t Just about Taxes
The taxation-without-representation argument endures, of course, because it is useful for the regime and its backers. Advocates for the political status quo insist there is no need for anything like the Boston Tea Party today because modern Americans enjoy representation in Congress. We are told that…
I read the entire link, thank you for posting it.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-revolution-was-culture-war
We, the populace are Irreconcilably Divided from each other as well as From "our" Distant Feral Grub & Mint
"Too Little, Too Late" is the Fatal Mentality of Mankind. to Avert Chaos and Wars. Simple enough, the Remedy proposed is too Radical and thus postponed until the Remedy is Now Inadequate to the Newly Current Situation.
When Reason fails then Force is employed. Discernment is the 1st Casualty of War. So decide for yourself; Are Reason and Discernment still majority traits in America ???
Or "Have a Long Train of Abuses Evidenced Themselves" ???
These are Questions that cannot be Avoided forever, They Will be Answered sooner rather than later, Comrades.