Thread by @APhilosophae

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It took 2.5yrs to go from the Boston Tea Party to the Declaration of Independence. Between Dec 1773 and July 1776 British government became far more restrictive, authoritarian, and oppressive. Things got much worse before they got better.

The Boston Massacre occurred in March 1770, some 6 years prior to the Declaration of Independence. People often fail to see the distance between the events. A lot of life was lived in the time between.

Too often we just think that a few redcoats shot some citizens, we then went out one night and tossed some tea into the harbor, and bam! declared our Independence.

The Colonists resisted taxation and the Crown reaffirmed its right to tax the colonists without their consent through the Tea act. They doubled down on unpopular policy. Crown behavior in India Asia also gave Colonists a hint of what was to be expected.

RUSTICUS (Dickinson) launched a broadside at the E.I.C. stating that their conduct in Asia showed how little regard they held for "the Laws of Nations, the Rights, Liberties, or Lives of Men". Sons of Liberty writer "HAMPDEN" painted a picture of an evil monopoly built on bribes.

In 1773 Boston was a town of 16,000, very small compared to London, Paris, or Mexico City at the time. Yet as a city it was a cosmopolitan mix of social happenings, community ties, and contentious politics. How so few people sparked a revolution must be considered?

Unity. Congregationalists, Distillers, Shop Keepers, Merchants, Craftsmen, Dockworkers, and Laborers alike joined in common cause. Had they been disparate in their aims Boston would have never led to a prepared action/reaction at Concord, in the Printing Presses, or Social Clubs.

This isnt to say that 100% of the population was on board. Far from it. But those who did push back pushed back as one. And only through that unified action were they able to prepare, plan, and act in a way that eventually led them to help unify the colonies in war.

What often makes organizations, groups, and movements successful is unity. Unity in action, unity in messaging, unity in purpose. Without it even the most well funded groups flounder and flail at the task. Unity is important, and perhaps what is lacking. Today let us unify 🇺🇸

A Call for Unity among all those who would resist the -isms of the left and the tyranny of bureaucratic oppression. If we are not one, we are none.
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