If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon

The point here being that she doesn't and she isn't.

In the previous post I note that an armed revolution would be difficult, if not impossible, to justify in a constitutional democracy.

In the post before that, I note that we seem to have millions of Americans claiming that they no longer live in a constitutional democracy, but in a cryptofascist state in which the Bill of Rights is nothing more than window-dressing and the democratic process is wholly corrupt, a sham conducted by genocidal baby-killers, socialist commuNazis and secret Kenyan anticolonial Islamofascist persecutors of straight white Protestants.

In that same post I note that their actions, or inactions, belie their absurd claims. They vote. They run for office. They sue one another (quite a bit). Apart from their ridiculously overblown rhetoric and fantasizing, in other words, they behave just like one would expect the citizens of a functioning and healthy constitutional democracy would behave.

In the America that is — the imperfect, but nonetheless still functional constitutional democracy south of Canada and north of Mexico — armed revolution or violent resistance to government would be unjust.

In the America that is not — the America that exists only in the "Holocaust" fantasies of morbidly dishonest antiabortion zealots or in the John Birch Society fever dreams of disingenuous tea partiers — armed revolution or violent resistance to government would be an obligation.

I don't see any cognitive dissonance or contradiction there. The issue is a question of fact: Is America — today, now, in reality — a constitutional democracy or has that regime secretly been overthrown and replaced with a tyrannical, totalitarian regime bent on forced euthanasia, Maoist collectivism, Sharia law and infanticide? Is the constitution still the law of the land? Or do we now live in NaziShariaBabykillistan?

If America wasn't America it would be something else and would require a different sort of behavior from its ex-citizen subjects. And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.

But she doesn't and she isn't.