FTA:
"In 1776 the American colonists rebelled against what they saw as the arbitrary and tyrannical British monarchy."
I like the sly use of "what they saw" - typical British snark.
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There's plenty of American historiography that questions the motivations of the American revolution and how tyrannical the British monarchy was actually.
I would guess that average folks living under the "tyrannical British monarchy" had as much or more freedom than Americans do now.
Probably more. The digital world has made us unwitting prisoners.
Rosa Brooks, the author of the piece, is American.