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If you're talking about militias in the desert or the jungle whose standard of living is shitting in a cave then sure. If you're talking about weekend warriors who want to continue living like modern persons then you're wrong. Sorry that people don't want to go back to the stone age to overthrow their current government. I feel like this argument is really missing the point that for most people they are already trying desperately to live their lives without incident. Most American's don't support foreign wars, they don't want trade wars, all they want is to go to work and make enough money to live their lives comfortably. When you start talking about functional revolution (not just talking shit) you're effectively talking about abandoning your entire life and the people in it. For example, if your family relies on you to survive then they are screwed if you abandon everything to join a revolt.
The "warrior caste" is not so, they're just pro war so long as it doesn't impact them. As soon as the consequences of war start to hit their wallet they start complaining. They're happy to have the US bomb Venezuela so they can have oil prices drop, but if it means the cost of goods in the store go up 50% then they cry.
Honestly, the best action is for foreign powers to treat the US like they have Russia. Sanction the US and make it suffer economically.
The only militia's, or similar groups, the US have fought in recent history have been Vietnamese, North Koreans, Nicaraguans, Iraqi's, and Afghanistani's who, apart from their formal militaries, were militia groups hiding in caves 9 times out of 10. This isn't a discussion about who they were or what they hoped to be, but about the effectiveness of their resistance and the impact on their lives.
For a group to effectively rebel within the US it would require a complete abandonment of normal life and even then it likely wouldn't be meaningfully effective.
Yeah, most American's don't want to give up literally everything to become an ineffectual or powerless martyr. Let's get it straight, unless there is a coordinated effort (such as a state originated rebellion like the civil war) then no person has enough power in the US to effectively make a difference. There aren't enough people universally coordinated to cause an effective general strike, instead it just means getting fired from your job. If you join a rebellion then your family has to subsist without you.
The Overton Window has shifted too far for a rebellion to spontaneously ignite.