The extreme measures will, unfortunately, provide themselves. As JF said, go Galt either here or abroad. Get off the grid, learn the skills you need to survive with minimal inputs from outside, and draw your line in the sand -- if the tyrants cross it.. shoot them. If you take just one with you that will be one less for me, or someone else. If only 3% of the country fights this way, and we average 1:1 , they loose - at least in the US. . If that is a death wish as Todd suggests then fine. (Do you really want to survive in the world where individual liberty is a forgotten dream punishable by the state for even voicing the idea?)
If no one fights for liberty, then it disappears from the earth. Todd will not get out of fighting unless old age catches him first- - without the US to deter it , China will seize control of the entire pacific rim- and are already making moves to do so. The fight will probably come much later to him, and he will be less well armed, and among people who will likely see him - an American - as the source of their troubles. Todd made a decision that works for him, but I would rather die among my like-minded countrymen who desire to restore the republic. "To each his own" is the battle cry of liberty.
No matter what you see, the American Federal empire is coming undone and each day that passes they loose more and more of that thin veneer of legitimacy. The media complex is now an obvious fraud, as are both major political parties. They refuse to repeal Obamacare? No worries, it will collapse under its own weight. And as long as its taking, I see no signs that suggest the dollar will avoid collapse. It is a 'when' not an 'If' - Russia and China are actively working to create a new worldwide trade system, they are placing pressure on the COMEX and paper bullion, crypto-currency is circumventing the Capital laws, and the welfare system is broke and each day the Government goes further into debt - debt that everyone with a brain knows cannot be repaid. Wages remain stagnant and they desperately try to re-inflate markets using printed money and debt. The hypocrisy of the left is doing its cancerous job--where people don't forget what is right or wrong , but no longer can bring themselves to care. Laws become what they are everywhere else, obstacles to be ignored and bribed around when unavoidable. What cannot continue, won't.
Hell, they may crash the currency now deliberately, just so they can blame Trump. It may take another 10 years. Or twenty. Wo know how long they can kick the can. Maybe Old age will get me before it happens, but it WILL happen, and it will impact my children so I am doing what I can with the information I have to prepare.
But they can't save it, and without it they can't pay enforcers, they can't impose anything. And what cause are they fighting for? Most of the free shyt army aren't willing to die to take your stuff, they only want someone else to do it for them.
As things get tougher, the outright non compliance will get more prevalent. The left will get more violent. The lawlessness will get more rampant, and for the most part freedom lovers simply have to get out of the way of History and allow the enemy to eat themselves. We are already largely geographically separate, and the cultural division are stark and obvious. The barbarian hordes in the sanctuary cities, as well as the entitled antifa crowd will ensure every American city ( where liberals live and work) becomes a war zone. And if those battles spill into the countryside, we in the rural areas cut off their water, their food supplies, their fuel and their electric power. We tie up police forces leaving mysterious packages. We flood data-systems with crap data ...
The tyrants have no idea how much they depend upon voluntary compliance, and if they try to switch to the age old method of fear-based tyranny, well, I am afraid we are simply too well armed and mad for that to work well. The only way I see the elite winning this is via biological weapons- and I don't discount its possible... but for the most part I think our "elites" are simply arrogant narcissists interested only in kicking the can and getting more for themselves before the collapse they MUST know is coming. I think very few of the have a political agenda, and even fewer actually are true believers in socialism as a system to provide a good human society, and most see it simply as the excuse they will use to convince the (useless, non-contributing, parasitical) masses to follow them. I suspect that most in the deep state are not all that interested in killing others with biological weapons to wipe the earth clean for their utopia, but are interested in getting to retirement so they get their fat pension or finishing whatever plan of graft they have going to enrich themselves. When the gravy train stops, I expect most of these cockroaches to get off and scurry under the nearest rock.
As John Titor suggested, it will do the human race good to have to take a walk with the gas can. You see it coming. Stock up on Gas , prepare to defend it and let the others walk. Its not going to be easy and political and non violent solution are very unlikely. Plan accordingly.