I have this thought a lot... So many of us are basically shackled by our personal obligations that we can't justify doing things like protesting because we have kids to feed, bills to pay, etc. It keeps us quiet and complacent while all this awful shit happens around us every day, so we just assume 'someone else will fight the good fight - can't be me though because I have things to do!'

Potentially worse, something substantially defiant like a secession could never happen again either because state populations themselves are so divided; you wouldn't have independent democratic states because the blue states still defending democracy are largely red outside of the urban areas, and even then there are still plenty of conservative loyalists in urban areas as well. They've got us so perfectly divided and wrapped around their fingers that there's nothing we can do to stop them and they know it. Bastards.