The English don't revolt. Even when they should have revolted, they didn't.
I don't know, I seem to recall a handful of English colonies fighting a bloody war against the world's greatest empire and winning several hundred years ago.
I think that very mechanism proved that the Americans could not be English.
I think that very concept is what makes us different. We are, truly, the "Anglos In The Woods"; and that the British-English had very badly strayed from their ancient English rights. The Americans were heavily Anglo-Saxon at the time, but very much mixed with Scots, Welsh, Irish, Scotch-Irish, and German quite quickly. They not only attempted a "conservative" revolution that demanded the return of ancient English rights; but also became non-English. Even then, many of the early American colonials were already of a revolutionary bent. They were the veterans of Roundhead military during the English civil war, but were also dissatisfied by the elitism of the Parliament immediately onward.
I don't know, I seem to recall a handful of English colonies fighting a bloody war against the world's greatest empire and winning several hundred years ago.
I think that very mechanism proved that the Americans could not be English.
I think that very concept is what makes us different. We are, truly, the "Anglos In The Woods"; and that the British-English had very badly strayed from their ancient English rights. The Americans were heavily Anglo-Saxon at the time, but very much mixed with Scots, Welsh, Irish, Scotch-Irish, and German quite quickly. They not only attempted a "conservative" revolution that demanded the return of ancient English rights; but also became non-English. Even then, many of the early American colonials were already of a revolutionary bent. They were the veterans of Roundhead military during the English civil war, but were also dissatisfied by the elitism of the Parliament immediately onward.
My point is that the capacity for open revolt exists within the English people.
I don't disagree. It's just very rare. That good sense has been exploited for centuries.
Those cheeky bastards. Could've just paid the 2% tax to the crown, but instead started a war and then instituted an income tax of 3% to pay for it.