Your response is a bit snarky. What's the purpose behind your apparent implied ridicule?
Oh? If you're looking for revolution, this isn't the site to find it on.
I've studied a little bit of history, and one or two biographies along the way as well. Comparing the who, what, and how of the very few 'successful' revolutions in history that we might look to as models for the change we want, the people and the ideals and the circumstances that allowed those events to happen the way they did were so very, very far different from the people and ideals and circumstances we have at present, that no revolutionary rumblings extant, or which might reasonably be in the offing, even rise to the level of a good farce in comparison.
Where is our Washington, our Madison, or Jefferson? Where are the great men of high, even sometimes selfless ideals, and possessing the social position and referent authority to lead? Are they in hiding? They certainly are NOT in politics now, trying to right the ship
without bloodshed. They do not exist -- heaven forbid -- in "our side's" media. Why not? Will they come out from behind their disguises "when the time is right?"
You talk of revolution and knowing true freedom, but there is NO guiding light to take us there. In the remotely unlikely event of forthcoming revolution, all we have any reason to expect is a brief period of anarchy followed by reprisal and subjugation.
So you can take your John Stuart Mill, pining for the war that is a lesser evil, and pray that day never comes.
The circumstances that built the greatest form of government the world has ever known DO NOT exist now. If we cannot work within the structures of the governmental system that has developed from that framework, there is no hope that we could replace it with anything equal. Even attempting to reinstate what "we" think the original form was supposed to be would require oligarchical subjugation of those we'd ostensibly be "freeing" -- as they would resist our efforts most stridently.
So, yeah, perhaps I'm a bit snarky when someone like this says we're going to march on Washington with rifles.