American Revolution

So really, what are the chances of an uprising in modern day America?  Not only do you have police everywhere, along with National Guard/Reserves and regular military bases throughout the country, but anyone that dares to fight  is an automatic criminal/militia/fanatic/terrorist.  Of course that means you're judged by the very rules you're trying to overthrow... but what chance is there that someone could overthrow the country's entire rule system and start from scatch, or even have the support of the majority of the people who watch TV and see everything thtrough a filtered media that puts negative spin in order to dissuade the efforts of a revolution?  The problem is the majority of the population is content and complacent.  Revolutions occur when the majority is poor, pissed off, and tired of the current system.  It would require people to have no access to their books, television, movies, computers, video games, or anything else to distract them.  It would require wealth to diminish to nothing, houses to lose their value, and utilities and public programs to become completely ineffective.  I don't see any of this happening unless the US is assraped by the Middle East or communist Asia.   

An armed uprising is extreemly unlikely today.  but not for any of the reasons that you put forth.  for starters of course an armed uprising is illegal.  how the fuck could it be legal.  the founders of the us had to break british law to declare independence, and that is the way it should be, filters out all the people that really don't mean it.  Next is who would be in charge of this armed uprising.  with the founding fathers it was a relativly small uprising orcastrated in secret by men that mostly all knew and trusted one another.  we don't have a vaiable option like that today.  next we were using the us continental forces at the time.  they were local milita trained for war.  we simply don't have that to go on today.  back then we weren't fighting americans, we were fighting british and declaring ourselves americans.  even in the civil war we had defined geographical lines across the country.  that is really unlikely to happen today.  as far as the going against the police, reserves, and regular armed services, realize that they are americans too, and our first job would be to recruit members from them genius.  And yes we would be automatic criminals.  not terrorists unless we decided to use those tactics, and in a revolution the leaders deciding on that tactic is not uncommon.  but we are supposed to be criminal for overthrowing the nation.  the founding fathers put treason right in the constitution for gods sake.  you think that was a mistake or a typo.  the constitution guarantees the govenment will never take away our means of rebelion(our guns) not that they will make it legal.  as far as the media, of course you can't count on them dumbass.  you have to make your own publicity, underground radio, fliers, etc.  doing attacks that get you publicity, and make your own publicity.  you can't have a secret rebellion, you have to drag all the people into it, it is afterall their country 2.  No a revolution does not requrie everything that you listed.  all it requires is that the people of the nation are suttibly pissed about the current nature of things, and more importantly have some form of idea as to a better way(which today how would you get that).  The best hope for a rebelion today is a whole bunch of little ones that pull the nation into several nations before the government can sufficently respond.  of course they would likely all hate one another so that they would then start infighting and a fall to complete anarchy with various facist, communist, religious, and other extreemist ideas conflicting, and eventually someone outside(probably un) would come in and place a basic govenment infastructe that everyone hatted, and we would fall to being a shadow of a nation.  realize that other nations have an interest in America staying just the way it is too.  japan has a great economic interest in the US, as do many other nations.