These militia groups have been around for at least a couple of decades. Maybe it's more important to pay attention to them than we were before.
As for being wrong, wrong, wrong, you might be on the right side. We won’t know the exact time or place thing(s) start. But the signs are there they will start up.
My grandfather left Czechoslovakia in 1936. A good part of the reason was he could sense a war was in the works--and Canada was looking for experienced farmers.
What I do know is that in 2009 I finalized my concept of a new kind of democracy. I spent some advertising $$$ primarily targeting the USA. No one was interested. No one is interested now.