Unfortunately a popular uprising against the regime ain't gonna happen UNTIL it shows its hand by committing multiple attrocities like Waco TX writ large and by then it will probably be too late unless the armed forces refuse orders to move against the population.
"Popular Uprising"? No there will not be a "popular uprising" It will be the same 3-10% who fought in and supported the Revolutionary war. As yes, that is enough.
Even with a 100% loyal army, Washington has limited resources. IF just 3% of the population decides to resist (as they did in the revolutionary war) that is still 9.3 Million people - scattered through the country side.. that is going to give us roughly equal numbers to current LE and Military And to BigAlSouths Point, our vets won't be sitting half-starved in a camp across from the Pentagon where they can be picked off, they will be among those same 9 million people and able to organize and train them. The Bonus army didn't expect an attack, and both tactically and strategically it would be foolish of us to provide them with a concentrated target like that.
Assuming the great Eye of Sauron in the NSA knows who their enemies are, I doubt they have an accurate knowledge of which 9 Million people are the problem, so their grab, detain, re-educate and liquidate list is likely to be
at least double that number. Then there is the massive expense of mobilizing the entire army, and any foreign troops they think they can bring in under the guise of "UN Peacekeepers" - and if you start going from house to house, word is going to get out, and before long your 20 man SWAT team is met by 100 snipers , concealed, on their own turf, and probably better trained in the the of their weapons. Fuel and food for the troops and their drones etc, will become a Achilles heel, because no where is behind your line. They can establish "Green Zones" like they did in Iraq, but where are they bringing the supplies in from?
And you know they won't have a 100% loyal army. there will be patriots working with in the ranks, sabotaging information, vehicles, and running munitions and arms to the resistance. Meanwhile the city vs. rural war starts in earnest, for 85% of our enemy lives on those festering hives. . Bridges are destroyed, water and fuel pipelines sabotaged, electric lines cut, railways hampered, concrete and other items thrown into sewers to damage those lines and shut down the machinery at the processing plants. IEDs hamper trucking. And then further Federal resources are diverted to dealing with food riots, sanitation and suffering in the cities, and fewer can be spared to come farmhouse to farmhouse - and the Resistance has yet to kill a single citizen.. at least directly. Every failure because a failure of the Fed to protect - a failure of the fed to fix the problems. The Bridge Sitting Monkeys expect Government to be a Parent- a God really, and when it doesn't come through they feel betrayed Maybe not enough to resist, but perhaps enough that they don't feel inclined to fight us either. They become part of that great mass of morons who will cheer no matter which side wins. They think Food comes for the store, electricity from the wall, and money from Obama's Stash and they will finally feel the full smack of reality. A lot of them will just go to bed and never get up when they realize their iDevice will never work again.
Its not a foregone conclusion that the Fed would win such a conflict if the Fed doesn't use WMDs. If they go on a wide spread Nuclear, Chemical or biological attack of the Countryside, they then risk the chance of poisoning the lands they need to survive afterwards, or killing the people with the skills needed to make it all work. That isn't to say they won't but its still a very risky endeavor for them.
And in the end, its the Fed on the clock. They can kick this can as many times as they want, and each day we are able to earn fiat and turn it into preps makes us more ready for them, not less. Each day allows them to do the same, but thugs don't fight without pay, and when the dollar collapses, they only pay the Fed can offer is rape and pillaging- The rule of law is obviously dead that this point, so all of the old grievances come to the fore. IN some places you will get race wars, and you will get dominant groups. Some places will be dominated by Patriots, others by Patriot groups gone despotic , others by Black Gangs, others by Hispanic gangs, and still others by Federal Forces who rape and pillage to maintain power and therefore become "The postman" like Militias with little allegiance to Washington. If the Fed doesn't have control by the time the dollar looses its Reserve Status (be that a slow or a fast process) then it will never have it. Most of the fighting will be in the cities, because the fuel and material to move a large group to the rural areas to raid will be ever harder to come by and the journey ever more dangerous. (and the leftards will be vindicated in that more guns = more gun violence
The low hanging fruit will be the "gang next door" for a while, and those left in the cities will still have to contend with poor sanitation and the disease that entails.
In this environment, Overall production falls. Less food. Less Fuel - ans it is largely the patriots in charge of the rural areas where that production takes place.
Again, there isn't really a need to gather en mass to fight the enemy. We simply kick him back into play when he comes our way. We supply our own. And we wait it out as the kill circles in the cities grow ever larger.
In summary, any attempt by the fed to subjugate by force is very likely to end in a real hot Civil war and eventually balkaniztion of the United States - which is fact my be the goal.
The other alternative is they simply keep kicking the can, and watching the power slip from their fingers as the dollar looses value on the world stage, and then you are Argentina. Corruption is common, Bribes are common, crime is common, but some semblance of production and rule of law continues. They pass more and more laws and more and more laws are ignored for lack of enforcement. Govt jobs are just sinecures that provide an overflowing supply of bribes as income. We become fully 3rd world - and this is sadly, the best case scenario at this point.
