Surely they just had failed to understand the decisiveness and efficiency of one-person decision making! Nor, for example, were they keen students of history where single rulers had plunged their countries into disaster! For 18th century Europe was a place of enlightenment and peace!

April 05, 2026 - 14:13 UTC

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I just don't see how they could've imagined a flamboyant and eccentric self-involved "everything is whimsy" individual at the helm; it's like they predicted Trump. Remarkable.
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It surely is not the case that at the moment they rebelled they were the subjects of a King who suffered long bouts of a serious mental illness! Providence would never have allowed such a thing.
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The King of England had no executive power by that point.
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Well, anyway, we will never know, for none for them wrote extensive pseudonymous pamphlets explaining their concerns about this very topic.
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It’s fair question
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