I read through your post and I think you misunderstand my position as pacificism, while I am simply stating that political movement in peacetime is also necessary. Violence is necessary when appropriate.

Well, that's good to hear. Too many people I see advocate for non-stop "voting harder", and think if you advocate for anything more extreme, you're a "fed" or "glowie". It's incredibly aggravating. But, yes, I also advocate for political activism, in state and local politics which aren't completely taken over.

After digesting your scenario it seems that the collapse you refer to is the sudden inability of the government to facilitate delivery of food, electricity, and gas, which then results in mass starvation of half or more of the United States as farms refuse to help the cities. Basically a zombie apocalypse level of destruction. Interestingly enough this is not a rebellion where people will forcibly overthrow a tyrannical government, as the govt will essentially fall down anyway.

The more likely scenario in my mind is that some kind of right wing faction in the US aligns themselves for secession in a similar way to the buildup to the Civil War. If the US will degrade to the point of nonfunction, that should be obvious long before it actually happens.

OR the populist right wing faction becomes so politically powerful that the feds attempt to hold onto power by fiat eg martial law and mass policing, which would prompt a countrywide conflict.

Well, the big SHTF scenario I painted will only happen in the middle of it. The U.S. military (i.e. government) has been war gaming civil war 2.0 scenarios for a long time, and they always result in the same thing. They lose. The main cause is that once the violence starts, it slippery slopes downward to where more and more people abandon the system, reject the government's use of violence against the people, the people (almost exclusively White people in this scenario) increasingly band together, collectivize, balkanize, form militias, and fight against the government. The big rural vs city scenario I painted happens after a while (the time frame can vary wildly) of this escalation.

The big unknown is what the government plans on doing. Everything I've seen shows that they'll desperately try to slow boil it for as long as possible, in the hopes that they can stamp out any of the beginning stages of resistance, secession, balkanization, militia forming, collectivization of Whites, and violence. They know that when the violence starts, they inevitably lose, because it always results in their systems failing, systems which they use to weaken and control people. Once their control mechanisms fail, the people fully awaken and fight back en masse.

I should also add that a revolt against the government, an overthrow of the government, and a collapse are not necessarily separate things in this scenario. A collapse is inevitable at this point. Every metric points downward, and the collapse is accelerating. It's one of the reasons why so many uber rich people are building bunkers, in a vain attempt to survive what they all know is coming. It's also why they're offering us false saviors to the dissident right, in a vain attempt to placate us and try to bring us back into the fold. It's why tech CEOs are disingenuously "moving right", in a vain attempt to convince us that we're "winning", in the hopes that we don't keep escalating our rhetoric and plans.

If you look at what's happened to previous civilizations, especially the big and successful ones, we're following exactly in their footsteps. The collapse can happen several different ways. It might happen as you suggest, where a right wing faction seceeds, which will ultimately result in the government violently trying to stop them, which will escalate the violence. It might start as several states defying globohomo authoritarian demands, which will result in the feds trying to violently stop them, which will escalate the situation. It might start as another Ruby Ridge or Waco 2.0, which will piss off the people enough to fight back, which will escalate things. It might be that the feds try to get us involved in another war, and too many people refuse to fight for it, knowing it's fake, which will escalate things. It might be because the inflation rates get so bad that people can no longer afford to eat, they start stealing en masse, which causes government crack down, which will escalate things. It might be another stolen election.

There are a ton of scenarios that will all inevitably lead to the same thing. Once the violence starts, it will inevitably result in a collapse and the fall of the federal government and globalist systems. If the collapse hits first, it will inevitably result in violence, and the fall of the federal government and globalist systems. Who knows what will start it, but it will all result in the same things. It might start slow, or it might escalate quite rapidly, given how much people are being screwed over and currently putting up with.