Poison the planet? Do you honestly believe that government corruption has progressed to the point that they'd use nuclear weapons on their own people if we rose against them? And if you do, do you honestly believe we're not just waiting for the fall of humanity anyway? Do you honestly think that politics has gotten at all better in the last 30 years? The difficult way of making change isn't to vote in a "lesser evil" and hope they do good by accident...

Revolution is the final resort of downtrodden people everywhere, and is exactly what our country was founded on. It's not lazy or childish, it's a major decision that takes hard work and planning just to have a shot, which is why people only try it when there's literally no other way out. And if you think that we'd get nuked if we tried it, then damn, there really is no other way out.