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I don’t think the Boston tea party participants were all that concerned with following the tax policies at the time…
They literally were so concerned about the tax policies they blew up boats over it.
someone didn’t read
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I dunno why I thought the whale oil on those boats was set/caught fire before, but I was obviously mistaken when I wrote exploded, my apologies. Thanks for encouraging me to revisit the history. The point remains tho, they were intentionally following the tax policies by not allowing the boats to unload and destroying the tea to protest continuing to pay the tax to England, as they had been.
Taxation is soft power. Revolutions force regimes to employ hard power, which erodes their legitimacy amongst the governed. Nothing changes unless the governed force change via a spectrum of civil disobedience to outright rebellion (like the Boston tea party)