> > and that is never going to change other than at gunpoint. > The addition of this half-sentence reads as incredibly odd. There are millions of Americans wh

> > and that is never going to change other than at gunpoint. > The addition of this half-sentence reads as incredibly odd. There are millions of Americans who have taken oaths to defend the Constitution of the United States (Not "the government". Not whoever currently happens to be President. Not some "monarch". The Constitution) against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Virtually all of people these have military experience (it's part of the standard military oath, also in the oaths of office for many government officials). Attempting to forcibly change the Constitution outside the normal amendment process would almost certainly result in large-scale bloodshed, and changing it through the normal amendment process is never going to work, because the smaller states are never going to sign off on it. Those are the facts on the ground.