When Public works raised unjust taxes upon the Commonwealth for the advancement of private Favourites

While researching an ancestor Hester Pitt who married Joseph Bridger, I come across this passage in God's infinite variety, an American, by Georgia Brake Todd published in New York by National Americana Publications, 1939.

During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, "when Public works raised unjust taxes upon the Commonwealth for the advancement of private Favourites," the Isle of Wight County was the scene of constant foray, and Colonel Joseph Bridger headed the followers of Governor William Berkeley, with John Jennings, clerk of the court, the most noted of the "Virginia rebels," Nathaniel Bacon's adherents. Later Jennings was run out of the country.

I recall Bacon's Rebellion from ninth grade American History and later readings. One of those things you know happened, you roughly why it happened, you know it is significant. And that is about it. A flat fact in lattice of history without great depth or granularity.

But what a great description of what is happening around the developed world where electorates are finally beginning to turf out the Mandarin Class for raising unjust taxes for the advancement of private favorites. When government is no longer a means to serve the commonwealth but rather is a means of preferment for insiders, it is time to oust the insiders and make the government the servant of the commonwealth again.

The Mandarin Class insiders describe it as right-wing or populist or use other negative terms but it is a means to take our government back from the insiders and make it work for the commonwealth.