Yep. But remember, the patriots who pledged their life and liberty to toss off King George were even a minority of the population.
You said — “Yep. But remember, the patriots who pledged their life and liberty to toss off King George were even a minority of the population.”
They dynamics of the situation in the 1770s was far different than what they are now. For one thing, England didn’t necessarily have maximum ability to get all the troops over here that they might have, otherwise.
Secondly, the Patriots were fighting on their own land and England was viewed as a controlling entity and government far away.
Thirdly, the “military hardware” was far different then and it wasn’t as “mismatched” as it would be today.
So, in this case, we do have the mechanisms, politically, to enact changes that the population wants. Now, if we end up being in a “minority” position, politically — it’s still a viable result, since it is being done through the mechanisms of exercising our political rights.
The military hardware right now is *vastly mismatched* for any kind of armed revolution that anyone would propose against our government. That would never work. An armed revolution simply is not in the cards — against our own government. That would never work.
There is only one solution and that is to work politically within the system...