History says when you have large numbers of poor and uneducated people who are also terribly frightened, bad things happen. Look at Russia and China. Perfect examples.
So then Jefferson, Adams, and all the rest were the poor and uneducated as well I suppose? They were part of a group that was pretty much feeling the same way.... When we had our first tea party in this country, there was a massive destruction of British property in the dumping of the tea into the harbor. Have there even been any acts of vandalism anywhere near that directly related to a tea party?
You generalize this like that and call people uneducated who participate or support the tea parties, yet you fail to realize the truly uneducated tend to follow the status quo rather than oppose it.....
Let's face it rdean's grip on the present is a little slippery, so his understanding of historical context is something that's difficult to take seriously, much less discuss.
The American Revolution was somewhat unique in that the revolt was against a relatively free government, (GB had a parliment) and didn't seek to unseat that government. In fact, had the Britian's Parliment simply allowed the colonies have any representation, or any "slack" the revolution probably would have fizzled, and we would be no more independent than Canada, or Australia.
As a result of British Intrangedance, our government is inherently designed to give slack.