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by sidewndr46 60 days ago
The mistake you're making is assuming "historically" applies to the US. We had one Civil War, where part of the existing government decided to fight other parts of the government. They then sent the citizens to fight (often against their own interest) against each other via conscription.

An actual war against the people of the United States by the United States by the standing military would be so utterly one sided as to be incomprehensible. Let me just put it this way: no one at Waco was stopping those tanks.