[Leaning Right]

Correct, Lucius. Finally a sane post on this thread.

Putting aside the concepts of “treason” and “please try to work within the system” for a moment, consider:

armed revolution = many innocent deaths

Maybe:
many innocent deaths + success

But much more likely today:
many innocent deaths + bloody chaos for decades to come

People suggesting the possibility of revolution today need to remember that this isn’t 1776!

Back then, most folks just kept on farming while the combatants fought a few pitched battles over a few years. Then everybody shook hands and went home.

Today, an American revolution would more likely spin out of control and be more like the horror of the Russian or French revolutions and their equally horrific aftermaths.

Not pretty or romantic at all.

I would respectfully suggest that the “revolutionaries” out there put their efforts instead into serious lobbying for a Constitutional Convention. This would be, IMHO, a much better way to try to fix this country’s many problems.

If you feel that there’s not enough popular will for a Convention, then there’s not enough popular will to cleanly win your “revolution”.

[Ronbo1948]

You miss the point... The revolutionary war (civil war, take your pick)has already been started against the American People by the Obama. The battle has been joined with peaceful and lawful resistance. In the next stage, that will start after the November elections that promise to deliver strong Congressional delegation for the Free Republic, the oppressive Obama Regime must respond. This response will likely be in the form of rule by decree, unelected Czars and the vast federal bureaucracy. Thus the Will of the new Congress and the American People will continue to be ignored by the Obama Regime. At some point the economy will collapse... The entire federal house of cards will collapse. Weimar Republic redux... What then?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You are correct that Civil Wars are wars of extinction, of neighbor against neighbor and brother against brother, far more than the American Civil War (really the War of Southern Secession) was. The survivors of the defeated, if not expelled from the country will carry bitterness and be a constant source of treachery and sedition, for hundreds of years. Some would form gangs, like the Sicilian Mafia, caused by social groups crushed by historical victors. Some might be like the Syrian Assassins (Hashish Eaters), always fighting to infiltrate the dominant groups and murder as many as possible. These problems are the reason that genocide and exile are the usual paths of the losers.