Bottom line: Do not jump the gun.
If it's going to happen let them do it.
Why, Charles? You tell me why? Because p-p-p-public opinion? Hmm? Because why? The press? The military? What?
I don't know if I would call it moral authority. Its more of the preference cascade effect. For a rebellion to be successful we need the preference cascade to happen in our favor. That means making them show their hand as to what and who they really are.. and even then its iffy. But if you have 1% in revolt, you have 300 Million people still looking to turn them in and help target them for a pat on the head if they think that doing so is the "right thing" - and the sheep are so damn stupid that we need it to be really really obvious that the government is in the wrong. Or at least have it be wrong enough that these cowards shy away from defending it and attacking the rebellion. The Civil War would never have happened if a preference cascade had not - The Southern States needed to make a collective decision to rebel and to go to war over it. Its a human behavior in groups thing. Too little or too soon and it fails. People have to feel a cause is just to join a fight. that is why the left tries so hard to smear people who are doing nothing but declaring our Founder's and their principles to be correct. They call the tea party racist, they call militias terrorists, because they fear that without such smears, that a preference cascade in Liberty's favor will occur.
The Hope N Change liberal just wants to feel good about themselves, but few of that type of useless idiot can advocate the murder of their fellow citizens and keep up the illusion that they are good or noble. Sure there are ones who can, but the vast majority of the sheep really just want that little ego high. Wil Wheaton couldn't bring himself to say that the government should be banning Chic-fil-a , while maintaining that anyone who disagrees with him is an irrational bigot. What he found was that it was hard to be self-righteous when being a dick. I wouldn't expect any conversions, but I do expect that when they can no longer get their feel good buzz, they will loose interest, and stop talking about it. If that occurs, the conversation or "narrative" will shift. The Hope N change liberal is a teen who just wants to be part of the popular crowd, if we become the cool kids, they will support ( or at least not oppose) the new agenda. Or at least that is the theory. We are waiting for a flash point that causes that shift, or results in us all fighting and dying and the liberals winning and getting the hell on earth they so richly deserve. May Obamacare and medical advances keep them alive and slaving away in poverty for 200 years.