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 As far as I can tell, most of you are just hiding and/or making plans to escape to a foreign country.

High agency is to change the world around you, rather than to run from it or pretend that it isn't there. 
 I always have a backup plan because the will of the majority (voting) is what enables tyranny, since more than half the population lacks the cognitive capacity to do anything for themselves, that is why the rely on and idolize politicians, and worship celebrities.

The way things are going though, there is likely to be no where to run, which would be by design. I agree that you could potentially beat them at their own game, but only on a local level. People get Epsteined when trying to challenge true powers, that is what the world has been for a long time. The power attracts the worst people, and for them, when fighting a truly fascist or communist tyranny, there is really only one solution.

They had no problem trying to kill us. I don't mind stooping to that level if they force us to.

"Reasonable people forced to do unreasonable things." 
 There is a middle-point between living in hiding from the majority of the population and starting a violent revolution called "protesting and voting".