What works

There is nothing to stop us from doing the same thing:

"In 1772, groups of colonists began to create Committees of Correspondence, which would lead to their own Provincial Congresses in most of the colonies. In the course of two years, the Provincial Congresses or their equivalents rejected the Parliament and effectively replaced the British ruling apparatus in the former colonies, culminating in 1774 with the coordinating First Continental Congress"

(note the timeline with transportation and communication by horseback.Those folks were big-league players)

(if were half their caliber we could do it in 90 days.)
(there was nothing democratic about taking the country from British rule)

John...the citizens at the time were fed up with the British and pissed off en masse at the entire system. That is not the case now. The Democrats and Republicans control the system and split the dissatisfaction. There are not enough people prepared to think exiting the entire system yet. But that time is coming. And at a certain time between now and then, what you are describing will be the right thing to do. But not yet...in my humble opinion. You don't create the wave, you ride it. So wait until the wave rises first.

Mike

Mike,

Some citizens were pissed off. The rest were not, especially those in England. I have plenty of Tory ancestors. But they didn't have a vote in the Committees of Correspondence. Even by 1774, the committees were a minority of less than 1%; estimated 8,000-10,000 in a population of of 3 million.

But these were serious movers and shakers, and within a few years loyalist business could not survive nor could royal officers holders get any support. It had nothing to do with mass uprisings. The Continental Congress was forty people. And all this without ANY shooting. The Crown couldn't arrest anybody anymore. Nobody stood alone. The Crown couldn't do squat. Meanwhile in the usual way, 90% of the population had nothing to do with any of it.

We have been slurping the democratic-socialist cool-aid for so long we can't even think straight. We have been fed a statist narrative of what happened in the revolution...some state-democratic element gave us the country and the Declaration of Independence.
Now we are so stupified, we run to our abusers for help like pathetic, submissive trollops and believe their supporters should have a vote in our democracy.

The Founders would be horrified and disgusted.

John

Exactly…when the wave starts to build, that will be the time.

Mike