The options are quite limited for sure. One is to work with like-minded people and practice agorism in some sort of parallel economy. Another is to drop out completely (again, with like-minded people) and build something as far away from the Leviathan as possible while living off the land (going into town occasionally for some supplies). Of course the problem with both of these is that the government will eventually track you down and charge you with rebellion and/or insurrection (a ridiculous charge in that the only people using violence in this scenario would be the federal goons) and you'll end up in some D.C. gulag with the January 6th trespassers.
Of course, the most popular option these days is state secession (i.e., peaceful separation), with states like New Hampshire and Texas just leaving and creating their own independent countries. Unfortunately there exist some problems here as well. For one thing blue states are only 65% blue and red states are only 65% red, and so without a firm commitment to minority rights there would have to be significant population transfers (peaceful ones, one would hope). There would also have to be some arrangements regarding the armed forces, the currency, nuclear weapons, and the national debt and being that the two sides don't agree on much, good luck with that.
My prediction, nothing changes and the country continues its precipitous decline with the end-result being Bolivia 2.0. I give it 20 years, 25 tops.
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