“It’ll be a long and bloody business w/ dubious benefits at the end depending on who takes the hill. I think few have thought much beyond the killing part.”
I agree with you, but consider: the Founders spent riches and lives in a dubious, to say the least, endeavor to escape dominance by a central government, which, though more distant and less democratic, was radically weaker than our own. We also had the highest standard of living in the world at the time, I believe, and the protection of the world’s greatest power. All that, plus our tie to it had persisted not for 200+ years, but since time imemorial.
What a bunch of nutty extremists they were! And it wasn’t just the one rebellion, they advised as many additional as necessary. Some of them even started further ones, shortly thereafter and fourscore and whatever years later.
I’m not sure you understood what I wrote.