Sauce for the Gander

A revolt can work. The catch is, you need overwhelming numbers. It's like storming a castle. The government has massive power to enforce its desires, wrong or right. In order for a revolt to work, that means flooding the system with so many challenges that not even the government can afford to apply force to all the people who are breaking that rule.

With health insurance mandates, that probably won't work, because most people will pay for health insurance. If people who can't afford it refuse, there will probably be few enough that they can simply be fined into bankruptcy or thrown into jail for being poor. That's a vile thing to do, but our government has kissed off its ethics long since.

However, a revolt also relies on a groundswell of rage and resentment. That we do have; the insurance companies have made a majority of people HATE them. So it's possible that a spark in one place could flash into a wider conflagration based on that smouldering resentment.

The drawback to that, of course, is that enraged people tend to smash things. Reasoned reform is therefore greatly preferred over revolt and riot.

Not everyone can afford to be arrested, thrown in jail, fined more money than they make, etc. for the sake of fighting for their rights. In fact most people can't. The mandate plans are carefully designed to take advantage of citizen weaknesses. Blaming the victims is not productive.

If a feminist is assaulted by a corrupt police officer, who holds a gun to her head and tells her to love him or die, and she smiles and has sex with him...

... is she a hypocrite or a rape victim?