This is a fantastically threatening statement.

[SidneyR]

48. Everyone wants to simplify everything.

But the argument the petulant colonists had was more with Parliament than it was with King George III. The British system already had a limited monarchy at the time and in reality it was the policies and taxes levied by Parliament that angered the colonists, who felt they shouldn't even have to pay for their own defense. In fact, though, the ordinary Brit in Britland paid more in taxes than the American colonist did. The whole conflict was ginned up by a colonial elite chaffing at the limitations of empire. They wanted to get richer and so they dragged ordinary colonists along with them, as elites often do. No surprise that it was a rich man's fight, paid for with the poor man's blood. I for one am not completely sure it was worth it, especially seeing what we ended up with.