

This is the whole problem. When it’s too late, it’s too late, definitionally. You can’t do shit against full on authoritarian government. You can’t do shit even if you have community. And you don’t have community, Americans hate each other more than anything, and it turned out most of them aren’t smart, so they’re ripe for the picking for every asshole imaginable to fuck them sideways.
Authoritarian governments very rarely got overthrown, and if they do it’s almost never from the inside. Almost exclusively it takes some outside events.
And if they do, it’s usually done by some powerful group like army.
The situations when people rise up and overthrow autocracy are so rare, it’s not worth talking about. And it also takes completely different population. Americans are ingranely conditioned to obey the power, especially those who boast about freedom the most.