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To say that the American Revolution was not about representation flies in the face of history and defies the rhetoric of those who carried it out. The revolutionaries constantly brought up the colonies lack of representation in Parliament as justification for their actions.

You must be joking or sophomoric. If the colonies got representation, they would have got overwhelmed. The issue was about taxation, about over reaching government. Any serious reading of American history shows the issue of representation was merely a rallying cry for the ignorant masses.

Of course they're being heard (good lord, didn't you turn on the TV or radio before the election). They just aren't having their way. Being part of a democratic system means being mature enough to accept that I won't always get my way, that sometimes I will be in the minority.

Mature enough? You suppose revolutions throughout history are due to a lack of maturity on the side of the losers? LOL