There’s a long history of the executive and legislature infringing upon our constitutional rights. There’s also a long history of the judiciary striking down those infringements and upholding our constitutional rights. This is what I’m referring to when I say the Constitution has acted as a safeguard throughout our history as a nation.

The judiciary has just as long a history of trampling on our rights as the other branches. I'll bring up some specific cases if you'd like, but they are just as guilty of using their personal beliefs to override the Constitution as the other branches. The Constitution itself is inert and can do nothing, and the institution you are using it as a proxy for is just as guilty of trampling on our rights as the other parts of the government.

Regarding other actions we need to take, I neglected to mention the most important thing, namely that parents need to take back control of their children’s upbringing. For far too long we have abdicated this responsibility to the state and more recently, the internet.

You are quite correct to say that government is an extension of culture. The evildoers have been manipulating our culture for decades on end primarily through indoctrinating schoolchildren with their Social Marxism. This insidious cultural reformation has run its course to such a degree that we are on the precipice of voting in actual Marxism. We simply cannot withstand another generation of this indoctrination The only way we can stem the tide on the impending color revolution on the horizon is to restore American values in our education system and reclaim our responsibility for raising the youth. This happens from household to household and on the local level through direct parental involvement.

Couldn't agree more. The family and the church are always the first institutions attacked by Marxists, as these are the most foundational building blocks of a society. We must repair this institutions if we are to have any hope of reforming our society through any means.

I firmly believe violence is an option of last resort. Exhausting all other options is mandatory in my view. This is true at a scale i.e. regardless of whether we are discussing personal disputes or a corrupt government. However, if it is true that other options are impossible or ineffective, as you suggest, then those options have been exhausted.

This is once again probably an area in which we primarily disagree on degrees and semantics. However, this is an area in which I believe the precise degrees and semantics are critical, which is why I'm so willing to passionately argue these points.

I feel that too many people, even if they admit that violence is an option, are not prepared to carry that out when necessary. That by viewing violence as a "last resort" they push it so far down the road that any violent action they might take is too late or too weak to be effect if resolving a situation. People ought to be prepared for violence. Not just to be victims of it, but to be capable of effectively inflicting it on others in defense of themselves, their rights, and those around them. Yes, violence is a "last resort", or at least a means of putting non-violent options back on the table, but it can only be a last resort if we are actually capable of carrying it out effectively.

That being said, America is far from exhausting our other options.

America is not far from exhausting our other options, especially on a historical timescale, but I would agree that we are not out of non-violent solutions yet. I legitimately believe the Federal Government is a lost cause. The status quo has been set against our freedoms for too long there for reform to come from within. Reforms of the Federal Government must come from outside, and they must throw out every individual in it (elected or otherwise), along with a complete reset of our legal framework (essentially, keep the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Everything else must be removed, and can be added back after we determine if it's what we want.)

I don't know if these radical reforms are possible without violence, or at least the credible threat of it. If they are, they will most certainly have to start at the local and state level, as you mention. Even so, I can't see America emerging from this as a unified nation. There are too many central beliefs on which we can no longer agree. Unless one ideology can win out and crush those incompatible with it (a process which takes generations, a length of time I don't believe we have) the only peaceful solution is a national divorce. This will undoubtedly result in our influence in international politics diminishing, which will likely have some negative consequences, but I don't see us gaining our freedoms back without some significant sacrifices at this point.

To be frank, the only reason things have gotten this bad is due to wide spread apathy. People would rather spend their time mindlessly consuming than actually taking interest in their society.

Previously you wrote that the tree of liberty must be fed with blood. It’s a profound quote. However, I also ascribe to the notion that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, which is ironically another quote from Jefferson. We, as a society, have utterly failed to maintain the degree of vigilance required and we are paying dearly for that failure.

This right here captures exactly why I called the Constitution and Bill of Rights "just pieces of paper". In the hypothetical situation where we are able to reform our government, how do we ensure that in a generation or two it isn't trampling on our (or our children's or grandchildren's) rights again? No law is capable of enforcing itself, or we wouldn't have our current issues with the constitution being trampled. If we could rely on a steady stream of even a few good men we could simply set up an Autocracy and not have to worry the rest of the people about the functioning of their government. We must ensure that we are vigilant in preserving those freedoms, and that we impress upon successive generations the importance of that vigilance in preserving those freedoms. We can implement whatever sort of government we like, but without personal and societal vigilance to preserve that government, our freedoms are only ever one breath away from vanishing.