What would it take?

Some days, I entertain random thoughts in my head about rebellion and revolution in this country. And I wonder... what would it take for some significant portion of this population to rebel against the political structure?

Would the military ever become so dissatisfied with the leadership as to forcefully oust an entire branch of our government?

Would a corporation or collective group of corporations use their collective leverages to remove political system?

Could a group of individuals who are sufficiently organized overthrow the government of a state? Two states? A region? The entire country? Just the federal system?

The problem with a country as large as ours is that government is entirely decentralized. Yes, the federal system has a very centralized nervous system, but would taking it out be enough to take out the entire system and maintain a unity of all the states at the same time?

Would it not be a better goal to attempt localized rebellions such that states or groups of states declared independence?

Oh wait... we tried that once. And no one remembers that it was originally about states rights and the unity of the Union, rather than slavery.

History is written by the winners - no one remembers why it started. They just remember what it was made to be about after the fact.