[Chevalier De Seingalt]

(01-30-2016 01:09 AM)Suits Wrote:  

I'm not suggesting that people should accept government overstep because life is "good enough," but in reality, 99.5% of people will and do.


Revolutions happen all the time all around the world. They happen when things are bad enough that people see no choice, but to put their own life on the line.

I agree with the above, and also think it makes the history of the American Revolution all the more interesting and remarkable to think about. Compared to the French peasant starving in the street or the beaten down Russian serf, the Americans living under the British didn't really have it that bad. And the ringleaders of the revolution were mostly well-off merchants and land owners who had comfortable homes, families, women to amuse themselves with; all of which they risked in addition to their necks in 1776.