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While I think your basic premise is sound, I'd be inclined to more closely compare Cybertron to pre-Revolutionary France than Colonial America. The important distinction, when framing the Deception uprising as a class struggle ala Megatron: Origin, is that the American colonies suffered under colonial rule not because of a corrupt aristocracy, but because of the nature of the colonial system. They were a loose collection of fringe groups, asylum seekers, criminals and captialists seeking to exploit the resources of the newly opened territories. Pre-Revolution France was burdened with a corrupt and extravagant aristocracy and their revolution was much more bloody than the one in the US, although the leaders in France claimed to be inspired by the ideas of the Founding Fathers. Think of Megatron as a Robespierre who morphs into Napoleon instead of dying and he makes a lot more sense than a George Washington gone wrong.