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South Korea is a unitary state, the US is federal. A bit harder to do in the US.
Not really. The military is controlled by the federal government. The state governments exist only to decide "small" local matters. And don't have their own armed forces.
I honestly fear that our military will do something like this. There are a LOT of chuds in the military.
Your fear is overblown. The US Military would get chewed up and spit out by Armed American Civilians. We outnumber them by at least 50 to 1 and there would be nowhere for them to retreat too in between engagements. Their logistics would be entirely cutoff and they wouldn't even be able to go home because their neighbors (at least some of them) would be waiting.
They could try but realistically it would be over (in most places) in like two weeks.
The best a broad civilian uprising could hope for in the US would be a drawn-out guerilla grinder like Vietnam or Afghanistan. Anybody who thinks it would be a one-way wipe (in either direction) is an idiot.
Not to mention that a dictatorship would be more than glad to support counter-revolutionaries, which would outnumber the left-leaning revolution by... A lot.