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[henryp]

I agree. However, the thing about right-wing militias is that they don't really give a damn about public support. It's built into their ideology that those who oppose them are either part of the government conspiracy to suppress their rights in furtherance of a totalitarian agenda or are the unwitting dupes of government propaganda. In either case, their opponents are not real patriots. It's the paranoid right's version of No-True-Scotsman.

I see you agree that they won't have popular support. No revolution survives without that.

I think people forget that real revolutions aren't a bunch of college kids marching on saturday with clever signs.  Nobody cares about those people, because nobody needs anything from them.  Just for them to go back to being a cog on Monday, which they always do.

If you're disarming the country, you need something from the people 'revolting.'  You need to take their guns.  That's the whole point.  And we've already seen an inability to disarm organized crime.   Maybe the government could do it.  But the cost is really high.   And for what?  To take guns away from people who probably weren't going to use them until they were provoked.