1) There have been countries which had military coups (even more overt than what has happened to the US since Civil War, Prohibition, WW2/Cold War, fall of the USSR, and 9/11) which rolled back. In fact, the US actually rolled back pretty well after the Civil War. We probably never really recovered from the nexus of progressives/suffrage/temperance/federal reserve/income tax/ww1/prohibition/nfa/gangsters/newdeal/ww2 though.
The biggest real changes we've had since the Cold War were probably black civil rights/ending Jim Crow (which was a huge thing for black people, but not as huge a thing for me personally), the fall of Nixon, the Reagan Revolution, and probably 1994 (and, on the purely-bad side, 9/11 and the response to it).
Rolling back NSA to spy on foreign governments/military/terrorist mercilessly, foreign commercial and civilians to a very minimal level, and US persons with no terrorist involvement at a law enforcement standard, is probably a change on par with ending Jim Crow, but nationwide, and for all people. Maybe less than the progressive changes at the beginning of the century. More than Reagan/80 or Gingrich/94 or Johnson's Great Society.
2) I agree, fleeing from the US is hard. Germany, Switzerland, somewhere in Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, and New Zealand seem like the most viable general solutions; for specific reasons I think Chile, China, Thailand, and Japan might be viable too, at least for some time period. I don't have much hope for seasteading or anything. Probably the best approach would be to have a US company which sets up a foreign office in one of those places, has a lot of experience working with people there, relocate there yourself, and then eventually either do a new business or relocate the company entirely.
Tiny marginal states really don't interest me anymore.
There's some bitcoin related guy (Idnan) doing a new free trade zone, location to be announced in November 2013, which might be interesting. I think it's on the border of 2 central american countries.
The biggest real changes we've had since the Cold War were probably black civil rights/ending Jim Crow (which was a huge thing for black people, but not as huge a thing for me personally), the fall of Nixon, the Reagan Revolution, and probably 1994 (and, on the purely-bad side, 9/11 and the response to it).
Rolling back NSA to spy on foreign governments/military/terrorist mercilessly, foreign commercial and civilians to a very minimal level, and US persons with no terrorist involvement at a law enforcement standard, is probably a change on par with ending Jim Crow, but nationwide, and for all people. Maybe less than the progressive changes at the beginning of the century. More than Reagan/80 or Gingrich/94 or Johnson's Great Society.
2) I agree, fleeing from the US is hard. Germany, Switzerland, somewhere in Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, and New Zealand seem like the most viable general solutions; for specific reasons I think Chile, China, Thailand, and Japan might be viable too, at least for some time period. I don't have much hope for seasteading or anything. Probably the best approach would be to have a US company which sets up a foreign office in one of those places, has a lot of experience working with people there, relocate there yourself, and then eventually either do a new business or relocate the company entirely.
Tiny marginal states really don't interest me anymore.
There's some bitcoin related guy (Idnan) doing a new free trade zone, location to be announced in November 2013, which might be interesting. I think it's on the border of 2 central american countries.