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I would tell you that you should have a better plan if I thought you had any plan at all.
Anyone who thinks they have a tinker's damn of a chance of rising up against the US gov't (aside from the ballot box) is going to find himself dead, or in prison, or awaiting trial on multiple charges?
Lennon sang on his Beatles song, "Revolution," in response to someone who WANTS a revolution that he (Lennon) wanted to see the plan for what's supposed to follow the overthrow of any gov't.
The best chance is at the ballot box. But not with the moneyed system we have today because I can assure you that liberals are not the problem you like to believe they are or that talk radio tells you they are. The biggest problem is well-heeled men and corporations who buy the legislation they want and/or kill the legislation they don't want.
But it's possible that there could be a grass roots uprising some day. But we're no where near that today. Look what happened to the Occupy Wall Street movement. That's was a grass roots movement of people who have been getting shafted by the system, and it ran out of steam? And why? One reason is because the middle class didn't join in. They've got too much to loose. And the movement was mocked on the right? You think that middle class conservatives are going to risk everything they've worked for all their lives to to rise up against the gov't? You are DREAMING! It ain't ever gonna happen unless the middle class ends up poor and in the streets with nothing to loose.
I hear ya somewhat. But the OWS Movement was merely a Democratic Party-invented Election scam. Where are they today? In the end, it won't solely be a case of rising up against Big Brother. It will more likely be about survival. This Welfare/Warfare State just isn't sustainable. And when the collapse does happen, it will be all about surviving it. But the first step in preparing for it, is accepting that it will likely occur. And personally, i see nothing wrong with be prepared. It's up to you to protect your own. It's your responsibility.
No, the OWS movement was started by people who were royally pissed off that they followed the rules, got an education, were in debt up to their eyelids, and couldn't get a good-paying job under the current economic conditions to give them a leg up on their futures AND to pay off their massive student debts (which, btw, can't be reduced or eliminated in a bankruptcy filing) even as Wall Street tanked the economy, got a bail out, and walked clean away without anyone having to endure more than fines that they could easily afford to pay. This reality was even more maddening than the knowledge that some big shot executives of large corporations and businesses could borrow large sums of money, default on their loans, declare bankruptcy, and still walk away with golden parachutes even as their business practices increasingly look like scams to squeeze as much money as they could out of corporations even as the shareholders get left hanging on to worthless stock.
The point of the OWS movement is that the 'system' is rigged to reward the well-connected, and then generally, the 'system' shields the men from most prosecution and/or serious jail time except for the occasional lone rogue trader who can be thrown to the wolves as some kind of phoney example of the American system of the equality of justice while the worst offenders remain untouchable because, for one thing, they bankroll the politicians on both sides of the aisle in our political system.
Sorry, but the OWS 'Movement' was a scam. It was invented by the Democratic Party as an Election ploy. Where are they today? No one's heard from them since Election time. I know it's hard for you to accept that, but it is what it is.