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I dont think that's viable really.
They're going to have lots of hardware.
The other option is unchecked authoritarianism.
The US failed to succeed against ~100,000 Taliban in a country they could bomb and burn freely.
It cost the US 2 Trillion dollars for the war including expenses for hardware such as the 362,484 bombs they dropped.
The population of the US is ~347 Million.
If even 0.1% of the population actually decided to do something and made a coordinated effort, the US would be up against three times as many people and wouldn't be able to bomb them nearly as easily.
The US also really, really does not want anything like this happening in their borders, because it would interfere majorly with cash flow from it's citizens to itself as well as it's businesses it's in bed with. It also can't kill a lot of it's own people, because again, the money would go away. This means the more people that would oppose them, the less they could kill or capture without destroying themselves.
For this reason I think it's probably more viable than most people suspect.
The only real problem is that it's only flesh and blood that affirm freedoms gain, and people generally either feel well off enough that they don't want to do anything, or are simply too afraid to do anything.
In any event, no one ever wants to be the first one to act. They usually wait on someone else to first.