Generally speaking armed revolution ends with the revolutionaries getting the short end of the stick, they were the keys to aquiring some measure of power, but

Generally speaking armed revolution ends with the revolutionaries getting the short end of the stick, they were the keys to aquiring some measure of power, but are no longer useful for a régime focused on controlling its new territory. Following that a constitution and new edicts arise that cement state power while providing a thin vernier of legitimacy. As far as an armed group in the united states doing that, I think we are a long way off from that. Although I would say democracy is structurally flawed, so long as the american public believes the foundation myth of their representation holds, no such thing is possible. The easiest way then to prevent an armed revolution, is to provide better transparency to elections. You dont even really need to make the elections fair; for instance im pretty sure republican voters will go on accepting that their civil and economic rights are trampled on; Democratic voters will go on accepting disfunctional criminal justice, healthcare, and education systems; so long as we arent playing games with who and how votes are tallied and what level of transparency we have over that process. Breaking that cycle, where the vast majority would really rather unwittingly vote away prosperity, requires a different type of revolution.