Ok. So you have NO faith in our national governance any longer. You don't trust them at all. Then we believe we are past the point of self governance and are now solidly helpless without political recourse. Then it is indeed time for war. Are we ready to take up arms and sacrifice our lives by the thousands to first destroy, then restore this nation? Or might there still be another step or two before we all march into rebellion?
I understand where you and others on FR are coming from. I share most of those sentiments myself. How can we trust the tyrants that we (as voters) have elected to rule over us in this endeavor when they have so shortsightedly betrayed us in the past? I personally believe we are running out of options and opportunities. I myself have believed that we have breached the voting dependence threshold for presidential elections. Unless we can affect the turnout, I don't believe another republican will ever win a "popular" vote (that is be elected "for" something as apposed to "against" something or someone else). I'm not sure Republicans can win POTUS elections any more. Add the illegals to the voting roles and we are surely done. Voters will not vote to have their goodies reduced.
As I have said before, we need to do something and "just winning elections" will get us nowhere with the current GOP. What we do have in this nation right now is a seemingly unusually large representation of conservatives at the state government levels. I don't know if we could get 3/4 of the states to ratify amendments anyway. But I think we should aggressively head down that road and get some passed, starting with term limits on all congress. If it goes bad, we always do still have the second amendment. But that war seems to be several decades away yet as the government can still send checks.