Abstractly speaking, this represents a sort of a mutually-assured-destruction dynamic between the government and the governed, forcing each to compromise with t

Abstractly speaking, this represents a sort of a mutually-assured-destruction dynamic between the government and the governed, forcing each to compromise with the other. As an American, the thought of an actual armed uprising feels so outlandish in 2019 that I'm pretty certain that no one in government takes it seriously (c.f. the steady erosion of civil liberties)