{"id":2289036,"date":"2024-07-04T02:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T06:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-no-longer-has-a-common-cause\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T02:09:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T06:09:38","slug":"america-no-longer-has-a-common-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-no-longer-has-a-common-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"America No Longer Has A &#8216;Common Cause&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerica-no-longer-has-a-common-cause%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2289036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Boston Tea Party:<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Tea Party was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-juneteenth-should-not-be-a-federal-holiday\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: \u2018Juneteenth\u2019 Should Not Be A Federal Holiday\">significant event<\/a> in American history that took\u2064 place on December\u2062 16, 1773, at\u2063 Griffin&#8217;s\u200c Wharf in Boston,\u2063 Massachusetts. It was a political protest undertaken by \u2063American colonists in response to the Tea Act of \u200b1773, part of a series of \u2063taxes imposed by the British government on the American colonies. The Tea \u200cAct gave the\u200d East India Company a tax break, resulting\u2063 in lower tea prices \u2064for colonists \u2063but also granting \u200cthe company a monopoly on tea sales. Colonists saw \u200dthis as a move by the British government to assert control and force them\u200c to buy \u200btaxed \u200ctea.<\/p>\n<p>Colonial \u2062resentment peaked with the Tea\u2062 Act, especially in Massachusetts,\u200c where colonists refused to \u200clet the tea ships \u2062unload their\u2064 cargo. Following failed \u200cdiplomatic efforts and\u2062 increasing tension, at least 5,000 colonists gathered in the Old South\u2064 Church\u200d to discuss the situation. On the night of December 16th, disguised men boarded the ships \u200cand threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor as a\u2062 form\u200c of protest. This act of \u200bdefiance led Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts, further\u2064 aggravating \u200bthe \u2062situation by \u200brestricting trade,\u200b housing British soldiers, and replacing local\u2062 elected governments with those appointed by the king.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston \u200cTea Party symbolized the \u2063colonists&#8217;\u200b resistance to \u2064British oppression and unfair taxation without representation.\u200c It was\u2062 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-t-in-lgbt\/\" title=\"Why Is T In LGBT?\">pivotal moment<\/a> that fueled the flames of revolution, ultimately contributing \u200dto the start \u2064of the\u2064 American Revolutionary War.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I can\u2019t remember the last time Americans were truly united. Maybe Sept. 12, 2001, but I was too young to remember. <\/p>\n<p>Now the only thing tethering us to one another is our complacency. It\u2019s the one thing we all share. We\u2019ve been fed \u2014 and willingly consume \u2014 distractions, mostly petty grievances stoked by politicians who thrive on division and chaos, on social media and television. Who has time to care about government overreach or lawfare when our favorite TV show starts in an hour?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve ceded too much power to the government because generation after generation slowly let their foot off the pedal and became willingly complacent via distractions. It\u2019s why we ended up with an administrative state that lets unelected bureaucrats write their own laws. It\u2019s why private citizens were \u2014 up until the Supreme Court stepped in this week \u2014 allowed to be tried in certain criminal cases without a jury of their peers. We were told government experts know best. We traded political power for expediency, and in doing so we\u2019ve forfeited the \u201ccommon cause\u201d that was responsible for the inception of this nation.<\/p>\n<p>The American Revolution didn\u2019t begin on July 4, 1776. It began in the decades prior when the British began creating an untenable position for the colonists. There was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/articles\/000\/sugar-and-stamp-acts.htm#:~:text=Enacted%20on%20April%205%2C%201764,importation%20of%20all%20foreign%20rum.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sugar Act of 1764<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/history-resources\/spotlight-primary-source\/stamp-act-1765#:~:text=11)%20On%20March%2022%2C%201765,%2C%20documents%2C%20and%20playing%20cards.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Stamp Act of 1765<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/collections\/continental-congress-and-constitutional-convention-from-1774-to-1789\/articles-and-essays\/timeline\/1766-to-1767\/#:~:text=Townshend%20Acts.,paint%2C%20paper%2C%20and%20tea.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Townshend Acts of 1767<\/a>; all of which raised taxes on the colonists in various forms to subsidize the British war machine. Colonists resented the notion that they should be taxed without representation. They also rejected corruption and big government. Their rights could not be reconciled with Britain\u2019s long-standing position of total control.<\/p>\n<p>The culmination of British efforts to subdue their subjects perhaps reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-vietnam-arms-deal-raises-concerns-for-china\/\" title=\"China concerned about US-Vietnam arms deal.\">pivotal turning point<\/a> when Parliament passed The Tea Act of 1773. The act gave the East India Company a tax break which lowered tea prices for colonists but also allowed the East India Company to create a virtual monopoly. It was a gotcha-moment. Colonists still had to pay the Townshend tax that they had decried just six years earlier and saw The Tea Act for the farce it was \u2014 a ploy for the king to flex his muscle \u2014 <em>\u201cYou have no choice but to buy the tea we sell you<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move revived colonial resentment toward the British. <\/p>\n<p>Following the passage of The Tea Act, most tea ships that arrived at ports in New York and Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/declaration\/related\/teaact.html#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">could not unload<\/a> their cargo due to swarms of angry colonists.\u00a0But in Massachusetts, loyalist governor Thomas Hutchinson forbade the ships to leave without unloading their cargo. <\/p>\n<p>After years of attempts at reconciliation, it was clear that diplomatic efforts had failed.<\/p>\n<p>At least 5,000 colonists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/bost\/learn\/historyculture\/osmh.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gathered<\/a> in Old South Church to deliberate how they would respond to the situation. On Dec. 16, 1773, dozens of men in disguises boarded the ships and dumped chests of tea into Boston Harbor. <\/p>\n<p>In response, Parliament passed the so-called Intolerable Acts, restricting trade into Boston, ordering colonists to house British soldiers and removing the local elected government and replacing them with a council appointed by the king, among other measures. <\/p>\n<p>As John Dickinson <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.niu.edu\/islandora\/object\/niu-amarch%3A104997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">later noted<\/a>, \u201cthe insanity of Parliament has operated like inspiration in America. The Colonists now know what is designed against them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, the phrase \u201cthe common cause\u201d began <a href=\"https:\/\/erenow.org\/common\/revolutions-without-borders-the-call-to-liberty-in-the-atlantic-world\/3.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appearing<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/pages\/1776-paine-common-sense-pamphlet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pamphlets<\/a> up and down the East Coast. The \u201ccommon cause\u201d was a call to all colonists to stand with their oppressed brethren in Boston against tyrannical overreach by the government. <\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the Southern colonies had little in common with their Northern counterparts. For example, their economies were vastly different and dependent on different goods. Georgians could have ignored the plight of their fellow colonists in Massachusetts, but they knew should the same fate befall them, they too would have to face it alone.\u00a0And so, the colonists moved forward under a united front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe die is now cast, the [American] colonies must now either submit or triumph,\u201d King George III infamously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcmm.org\/explore\/lake-champlain-history\/revolutionary-war-1775-1783\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in Sept. 1774. <\/p>\n<p>Colonists owed no obedience to unjust laws. There would be no such submission. They would take death or liberty. <\/p>\n<p>Their sacrifices, willpower, and commitment to the \u201ccommon cause\u201d is why we celebrate the Fourth of July, Independence Day. <\/p>\n<p>But it is a lack of that \u201ccommon cause\u201d that has put us in the position we are in today.\u00a0Government has become too big, and Americans are \u2014 just as our forefathers \u2014 treated as piggy banks for bureaucrats who spend uncontrollably to finance their partisan agenda. There can be no better tomorrow under these circumstances, but who would know? We\u2019re all too busy endlessly scrolling on social media to realize what\u2019s happening around us. We\u2019re willingly distracted.<\/p>\n<p>America is in need of a \u201ccommon cause\u201d now more than ever. Too much is at stake.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t recall a time when Americans were truly united, perhaps only on Sept. 12, 2001, but I was too young to remember. Now, the only thing connecting us is our complacency, as we are consumed by distractions and petty grievances fueled by politicians and media. We have allowed the government to gain too much power due to our willingness to be distracted. This lack of a common cause has led to a situation where Americans are treated as piggy banks for bureaucrats. We need a common cause now more than ever to address the issues facing our country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2289037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/13297674175_7dc3ecfcdd_h-e1720020350849.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5374,33896,3931,5017],"class_list":["post-2289036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-america","tag-common-cause","tag-division","tag-unity"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/13297674175_7dc3ecfcdd_h-e1720020350849.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}