And what effect do you imagine police agencies would have against a real rebellion?
A real rebellion?
None. But lefties do things they way the do because of the softness of the incremental movement toward a police state.
All Hitler needed was a solid core of true believers (which in terms of the population was very small)and enough bureaucrats and then jack boot thugs in police depts to pretty much take the whole damn country. The point being that there is not an over abundance in any population of the kind of balls required to really rebel.
America had it two centuries ago. Whether we have it still remains to be seen.