A Second American Revolution will happen at some point. But it is difficult to say when, or what the result would be. We could end up with a socialist system if the wrong things happened. As for those who talk about states rising up, forget it. The Civil War settled that one. And the Amendment making Senators be elected by citizens instead of state legislators put the nail in the coffin.
As for the whole illegal thing, it should have been a wakeup call to the states to reclaim lost power, but it hasn't been. More proof to my point.
By the way, the whole idea earlier of modern technology ending the "I'm a Virginian" idea is only partially correct. America has become "regional." It is common for a person born in New York to move to Connecticut, or from Boston to Baltimore. It isn't common at all though for a New Yorker to move to Montana or to Arkansas.
If a revolution were to occur in our current paradigm, it would be the fedgov pushing too far regarding land seizure, or the 2A, or messing with people's familys or their religion in one way or another. You take what someone owns, take away someone's right to defend themself, or try to stop people from practicing their beliefs and you cut your throat.
Oh, "The government wouldn't do that?"
What was Kelo? What about gun control since '34? What about Waco?
You do an ID chip, and it'll spark the religious community in ways the government would have never thought possible. And the most critical thing about it all, any of these things would be non-negotiable. No legal recourse. You do that, and you'll have your revolution.
What kind of revolution?
Well, the Henry Bowman, Unintended Consequences, Enemies: Foreign and Domestic sceanrio. Small scale assassinations. Inability to find the shooters.
But that happens, the government won't back down. Why? Because, in order for them to have decided to mess with people's property, their means of self-defense, or their beliefs, the government will have had to have grown such a massive sense of their own invincibility, they will escalate the situation.
This won't solve the killings because it will be small leaderless cells.
And, as the fedgov goes further, and does more to try to curtail people's rights, it will dig a deeper hole. It will kill innocents, jail people without reason or recourse, and create enemies it never had. It will have to fight defections in the ranks, and it will fail.
But the cost will be blood, and lots of it. Hell, we might even get foreign troops on US soil in order to enforce the illegal laws, but that is just as likely not to happen.
I think that as of now, the fedgov will use creeping incrementalism whenever possible.
But, with the current state of affairs concerning our border, things with the NAU, and an obsession with curtailing American's rights without trying to stop terrorists on our own soil, well, it makes me wonder.