Charles:

There probably are “millions” of us who have read and comprehend the Constitution.

Alas, I suspect there are “tens-of-millions” who’s only reading of the document was in middle school where it’s “meaning” was carefully explained to young and impressionable minds. Especially that “Balance of Powers” stuff. It sorta explains some of those inconsistencies.

Finally, there are “hundreds-of-millions” who are dependent upon the state and ANY talk of unalienable rights is “Ivory Tower.”

Can the middle-class prevail against the over and under classes who feed on them?

As you seem to point out, only by some form of “Gulching”, really. But talk about not gonna happen.

I am TOTALLY carried away speculating on what would be coming out of those garages should open war break out.

I don’t need to discuss “gulching” when my own novel, Alongside Night, offers a strategic alternative that doesn’t require retreating to a valley in Colorado. Of course I’m living in a valley in Nevada, so maybe I’m not the one to refute this idea.

I am TOTALLY carried away speculating on what would be coming out of those garages should open war break out.