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A comment on On Tyranny [book]. Parent comment
The revolutionaries just found it to be a useful story to tell to gain support.
They wanted independence to avoid helping Britain pay off the debts it accrued protecting the colonies from the French.
It's funny that Americans still buy the story that he was a tyrant.
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The revolutionaries just found it to be a useful story to tell to gain support.
They wanted independence to avoid helping Britain pay off the debts it accrued protecting the colonies from the French.
It's funny that Americans still buy the story that he was a tyrant.