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What made you like this?

Sadly, you're correct. Anybody considering "leading a US revolution" had better take another look at the raw material you have to work with here before using slogans that are better applied during far harder times.

Revolutions require loss of support by the masses toward the established order. Even in the midst of this "emergency" the U.S. population just doesn't fit that definition, and won't until they literally have nothing to lose.

When 45% don't pay taxes and 70+% get .gov benefits you have to ask, "who from among those percentages is going to withdraw their support for the status quo, and what is the 'rebel leadership' going to have to promise them, in order to get them to do it?"

The revolutionary and the guerrilla require Mao's "sea" of cooperative (or at least non-hostile) people to "swim" in. Nothing is more unlike that environment than the U.S.'s "see something, say something" population.

TL;DR: The masses of asses will remain inert until the Soylent Green - "Scoops" come for them.

Thank you for this. I started reading the Turner Diaries a while ago and started reading some other books as well.