Beware premature ejaculation.
Obama, like all the others before him, could GAIN strength from malformed rebellion.
It usually ends like the Bay of Pigs, not like Yorktown.
My belief is that we need to build the legal, constitutional, and moral case for restoration, and that when we are successful, no force that the communists can muster will be able to resist.
If we allow, through emotional gestures, the current ruling clique to wrap itself in the flag, then we are finished.
Yes, I’ve been telling the bubbas that I talk to that taking up arms as individuals or small groups would be exactly the wrong thing to do, for the reasons you state.
However, the scenario that “works” is when your state legislatures defy the fedgov with acts that have teeth, like withholding federal taxes in escrow and being doled out as long as the fedgov behaves within the Constitution.
If the fedgov backs off, fine. If they act to oppress or arrest, then the state governor calls up the guard, and the “militia” to protect people from illegal federal oppression.