I've given this topic some thought over the years (I'm morbidly fascinated with the idea), and I keep circling around to the same argument against it (without a LOT of changes to our current environment), the same argument I use when my friends warn me that civil war is imminent: Geography. Between miles of absolute nothing in some parts of the country, two mountain ranges, rivers aplenty, and small towns/villages scattered every 10 miles or so in other parts of the country, the Federal Government would have to grow significantly if it wanted to put a plan into place to round up conservatives. Just look at a county map of red counties vs blue counties. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but just like a civil war in the modern US, nobody has yet to outline exactly HOW it would happen, as in Step A, then B, then C, and so on. They have a hypothetical starting point, and a very well defined end point, but nothing to connect those two points.
I've given this topic some thought over the years (I'm morbidly fascinated with the idea), and I keep circling around to the same argument against it (without a LOT of changes to our current environment), the same argument I use when my friends warn me that civil war is imminent: Geography. Between miles of absolute nothing in some parts of the country, two mountain ranges, rivers aplenty, and small towns/villages scattered every 10 miles or so in other parts of the country, the Federal Government would have to grow significantly if it wanted to put a plan into place to round up conservatives. Just look at a county map of red counties vs blue counties. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but just like a civil war in the modern US, nobody has yet to outline exactly HOW it would happen, as in Step A, then B, then C, and so on. They have a hypothetical starting point, and a very well defined end point, but nothing to connect those two points.