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Politics and economics are inseparable, the only reason we have the former is to change or protect the latter. Have you ever heard of any political change in history that wasn't accompanied by a simultaneous alteration or entrenchment of the economic hierarchy?
Or to put it another way, all those prosperous planters, merchants and shipbuilders in the colonies could care less what King George was up to until he raised their taxes. The ones that tended to benefit by his policies instantly lined up behind him.
The others, we call "Patriots".