“Why don’t you think they want a massive revolution? Haven’t their actions in many cases been designed to provoke such a thing?”
“They” don’t want any such thing. An armed conflict with the American people is unwinnable, for a laundry list of reasons, chief among them being the sheer scale and size of a likely citizen army. It would number in the tens of millions, and would dwarf the standing armies of the world, combined.
Remember that our entire military was bogged down in Iraq for ten years. It’s been estimated that there were never more than 15,000 insurgents in the fight at any time.
And people fearfully imagine that our military could somehow defeat Millions of their own countrymen, on their own soil?
Even if given such orders, how many would suddenly realize they’re being conscripted to commit treason? I guarantee you, most would, and would refuse such orders. Such an order would more likely result in the arrest of the executive branch and the top brass.
Trust in this: Our government has war gamed the scenario of armed rebellion many times, and every time, they’ve come up with the same result. We win, they lose. The feds may push the envelope, but they’re not insane enough to attempt to subjugate us by force. Not as long as we’re armed, anyway.
This is why the Framers put the 2nd Amendment into the Bill of Rights.
Excellent response, thank you WF. That’s probably why they just sort of pick us off, one “situation” at a time, instead of wholescale direct confrontation with 100% of us.