What are you getting at? That we should continue to kow-tow to the government? Should the founding fathers have done that?
Dood. Go "Galt." That's always an option for someone truly fed up with the system. You can still even participate on the intarwebz revolución debates while Galting it.
I know a couple folks who have quietly divorced themselves from society with very little external interaction.
Thing is... you have to put down the beer and the TV remote to git 'er dun. Owning land without financing it is a challenge. Building your own infrastructure on that land (home, shop, electricity, well, garden, etc) is expensive too. Paying credit card payments and mortgages requires a job with the outside world, which requires taxes.
And after all that, you still need some "stuff" from outside. Gotta have some sort of low key means to generate enough cash income to meet your property tax obligations and other consumables like clothes, certain foods, medicine and gasoline.
The best war you can wage against the FedGov (if you want to) is legally absolve yourself of any income tax liability while living happily and comfortably in an independently sustainable manner.
Or, you can stroke your AR15 in the soft glow of your computer monitor, waiting for ARFCOM's homepage to say "John has a long moustache."