What % of modern Americans would have been cool with King George and the Stamp Act?

This is as absurd as comparing slavery in the 21st-century to slavery in the 17th century. Su

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Edit: Another lasting impact was the British sheep ban. They didn't want the colonists to own sheep because it competed with English herders.
Thus, we never developed a taste for mutton and you still can't find it in U.S. grocery stores. Big win for U.S. beef.
The English still eat mutton.

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Haven't heard that one before. On one hand it makes sense because very few restaurants I've been to offer lamb. On the other hand in the 1600s-1700s I don't see how effective it would have been to ship meat over the Atlantic. I guess you could if it was packed in salt but fresh meat was most likely preferred. Wouldn't have been very competitive in Europe.

EDIT: Just googled was because of the wool, not the meat.

I dont drink tea

Our current govt has done way more egregious things than anything the King ever did to the colonies.

We have become soft and complacent. We are the frog and the water is boiling

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EDIT: Just googled was because of the wool, not the meat.

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Yes, it was because of the wool industry. Meat imports were impossible due to no refrigeration. But the by-product of raising sheep domestically was mutton so we never got into it.

Ironically most of European style later shifted from wool to cotton. You can't grow cotton in their climate. So they imported from the U.S. And as Zoolander explained, the Civil War was all about cotton.

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Our current govt has done way more egregious things than anything the King ever did to the colonies.

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I'm not saying things are good right now but I've never been forced to house and feed soldiers. I've never had many parents recanting atrocities that the British committed on my family in Scotland and Ireland (many colonists had come from these two areas which have a long history of atrocities committed on them.) The Jacobite rebellion in 1745 was the most recent one to the Revolution.

The reason the American Revolution was successful though was the Brits pissed off the wealthy people in the colonies. Very few of the founding fathers weren't wealthy. The poor make up the bulk of the force but the leaders are from the upper class. We have zero upper class people who are truly upset enough to band together to lead some type of resistance to our current government.

Wasn't it something like close to 1/3 of the population of the colonies fought for the British?

That is true. About 1/3 supported the revolution, 1/3 opposed it, and 1/3 were indifferent