Is it possible to have an armed revolution against a modern state?

by Erik Stone

There is one key difference between how revolutions in history went, to how they would go now.  In only the last 40 years, technology has made dramatic advances that would quell the revolutions of the past.  Databases of all kinds, with every imaginable piece of information about citizens exist in the hands of government.  They know your intelligence from records from test you took in elementary school, photographic evidence of your car when it ran a red light and you got the ticket in the mail, how many times you went to the hospital to get a flu shot, to how well you respond to indoctrination from your grades in high school, to your fingerprints if you've left the country or own a firearm in some states, to every bit of this information for your whole family.

There are many ways an armed revolution could occur in a modern state, though all are unlikely and severely difficult in a modern state.

1.  Military Coup.  The "people" would support it, because the Communists, Socialists, Tree Huggers, and liberals in the US don't own guns, and they love when the government controls their lives, and the new government would provide that for those classes of people.

2.  Economic or governmental collapse.  This would be followed by another country invading, or by "The People" taking over control.

I'm still thinking and organizing my ideas.