I don't believe enough people would care enough about it to start a civil war. I think what needs to happen is, instead of going into IT management at 40, where we do more harm than good anyway, we start running for office until the government is full of experienced tech people.
This! And talk to your representative / MP / whatever and tell them how important this is. Often they just don't know and they hear <SCARY THINGS> from people who have control+profit based agendas.
