Rebellion and revolution is possible in America today

Great opening argument, Ariesx! Sorry for such a long delay in responding, it's been a busy weekend & Monday. For your point #1, I'd like to say that the article you referenced for the statistic of "79% of Americans believe that it is a free country. " comes from an article entitled: "Americans Less Satisfied With Freedom", therein describing a downward trend in the number of Americans that believe they live in a free country. The trend (according to this reference) has been steadily falling for the last seven years. I think it's safe to say the trend will continue, thus promoting the idea of rebellion and revolution. For your point #2, I haven't found any direct reference to the people blaming republicans specifically. Here is a quote from your reference: "Of those who feel this way, 62% say "a lot" of the blame lies with Congress, while 54% say the same about banks and financial institutions, 47% about large corporations, 44% about the Bush administration, 39% about foreign competition and 34% about the Obama administration. Just 8% blame the middle class itself a lot." It would seem that most people blame congress as a whole for the economy and disappearing middle class, and that most people do not trust congress and believe that there is wide-sweeping corruption in congress. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org... For your point #3, I'm having difficulty with finding the figure you cited, that 71% believe Obama is going to fix the economy. You did reference Pewsocial, and the number '71%' only appears in the article you provided a link for one time, and it's not referencing Obama, it's referencing Romney's policies. For point #4, Your point made about News stations being able to lie is a tragic fact indeed. However; in the dawn of social media and smart devices in the hands of everyone, and YouTube channels that can have as many subscribers as those willing to click the 'subscribe' button, I feel that major media outlets are a dying breed. I'll use myself as an example. I don't watch TV, in fact I don't own one. I also only listen to 'public radio' in my car, or a CD because I don't like the commercials and bias of stations. I depend largely on independent journalists, Yahoo news, and Google News search results to learn about what's going on in the world. Using Google News search results allows me to read about one topic from several sources of varying viewpoints. I think that broadcast mainstream news is going the way of Newspapers. Less and less younger people care about them. I myself just view them as noise boxes that are unwanted, unneeded and cause more trouble than good. A time is soon coming when the major news outlets will be replaced by a new platform. However, I'd like to entertain the thought of mainstream media not covering protests. There's an old saying that goes something like "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." I think that saying is true. And I believe that each and every single time that the people of America protest in vain, we get that much closer to rebellion. Every peaceful protest that accomplishes nothing gets us closer to rebellion. Every ignored protest gets us that much closer to rebellion. For, if peaceful protests don't work and aren't allowed to work, then something else will eventually happen that will work - and that often means violence. For instance, in Saint Louis, Missouri right now, Governor Jay Nixon says that people can peacefully protest, but violence will not be tolerated. This is concerning the Michael Brown shooting. When those people's protests accomplish nothing, when their demands are not met by local police, local city officials, and county officials, their protests are in vain. They have demanded a 48 hour notice for the grand jury decision, and this will likely go unfilled. They've demanded the immediate arrest of the officer that shot Michael Brown. An ordinary citizen who shot someone else in similar circumstances would generally go to jail and then be bailed out, maybe. The protesters have also demanded other things as well, which will go unfilled. Their protests count for nothing, because nothing has changed, no demands filled, nothing accomplished. If you look at successful non-violent protests that were generally peaceful, they are often successful due to martyrs, or deaths that many perceive as a martyr. For instance, black rights to vote came at the expense of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being assassinated. His martyr-ism created an enormous momentum for the movement. So, my counter argument to point number 4 would be that protests that aren't allowed to peacefully make progress, protests whose demands are not met, or ignored; will only eventually lead to violent protests, and eventual organization into rebellion. For point #5, I would like to point out that even though large sums of money is spent on the military budget, American forefathers were able to repel foreign forces during the american revolution with less than the enemy was spending. Also, The U.S. government has shown time and time again that it is unable to respond properly to Guerrilla warfare; as is evidenced by the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and other similar "Police Actions" that are unconstitutional (and therefore tyrannical) wars because war was never declared.