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Correct.

Revolution is intranational war.
War means that one uses any and all means against the enemy.
This means that infrastructure is destroyed.
This means crops are burned and fields are salted.
This means that food is scarce.
This means goods and services are confiscated for use by the army/militia, etc.
This means that while the majority of the men are away fighting, rogues/gangs enter the homefront and that the rule of law gives way to “might makes right”.
This means that rape and plunder are commonplace.

Your purchased power will be intermittent.
Your water supply will be interrupted, and can no longer be assumed to be safe.
The natural gas may not make it to your meter in a regular fashion.
The Quick Stop never has gasoline any more.
Your internet connection may experience some downtime.
Your grocery store is much smaller, and mostly empty.
You are not going to need that new flat screen TV, and my want to trade your existing one for some coffee.

This means that the world turns to complete shit, and maybe, and only maybe, we are able to put the pieces back together into a working nation, and not a bunch of 3rd world prefects.
This is not something to bluster into without a clue. This is an absolute last resort.

Thermodynamics would describe this as an irreversible process with an exceedingly low efficiency and exceedingly high exotherm. The resulting energy trough would lie at or near the ground state following the release of all previously attained potential and kinetic energy.