you completely ignore the situation in Washington.
They are IMMUNE to consensus. They don't seek the consent of the governed - they RULE over us. How plain could we have MADE it that we didn't want Obamacare, TPP, a thousand other expensive and antidemocratic edicts and programs? THESE ARE BEING FORCED ON US. And the cost will come due; and the taxes ALSO forced on us.
We have been trying to get States to join in an Article V Convention - and once again, a few elitists are serving as roadblocks. THIS HAS TO STOP, and the Print-And-Spend Political Elites will not stop. They're awash in money and in cronies seeking to take government money and give their own as advance investment.
The check on Washington was always the States, through the Senate. The Senate was to be filled with State appointees. That is no longer true and there is no consensus anymore and no desire to seek one.
You are NEVER going to be able to put a stop to any of that, or even slow it down via civil means.
Period.
History teaches that tyrants and a ruling class will NEVER yield their power and wealth streams from those they yank it from without the threat and use of force. The lawless are not going to yield to new laws they already exempt themselves from. They will also never yield to a people demanding they surrender their power and theft industry via the institutions they have corrupted.
Few to none are willing to risk what would be necessary to even amount to the 3% that actively engaged and resisted the Crown.
You are also forgetting that liberty cannot exist without the moral and religious foundations that established us. Since that no longer exists in this culture - and this people are no longer governed by God, the idea of restraining the tyranny of men is ridiculous. Only when a people are spiritually ready will God grant such efforts of liberty the victory after much hardship and bloodshed.
History teaches that a people who have become what we now are, WANT slavery. They WANT the 'security' of dependence. A people who make government their god cannot and will not be capable of freedom.
Speaking directly to the tyranny most willingly suffer and refuse to call tyranny, the majority of those even looking at the reality of our situation are counting the costs and not willing to risk what would be necessary to rectify it. Lives, fortunes and sacred honor things. I cannot even get any traction among likeminded folks to agree to simply refuse to comply with the Beast. They say they gotta eat and pay the bills and cannot risk punitive acts for refusing to go along.
If Christians themselves would not stand up against encroachments of evil upon their free exercise of faith - why would we think they would stand up and risk their lives to resist what society and their tyrannical government impose on them? How many of them are going to throw Romans 13 in your face for even discussing this subject?
Let us face the reality of the ground now before us. We're going the way of Rome and every other Republic that fell. You cannot reverse that, despite the screaming of our normalcy biases against accepting what is staring at us in the face. Defeatist? Not if you want to survive, and that is what we really need to focus a remnant to get their minds wired to do.
We need to survive the consequences this government and people have already sown against us. Consequences that have yet to be experienced by us, before we can begin the hard work of reeducating a morally degenerate and selfish people to do as you advocate. But we are not going to just magically vote to return ourselves to what was already lost.
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it." - John Adams, July 7, 1777
That statement by Adams is not only historically accurate - it is biblically accurate as well.
What is before us is to resist if we would retain what liberty this people and their government seek to abolish. AND then we need to explain in very painful language, the reasons we ended up where we have.
You cannot move to righteousness and liberty without repentance, and a people who see nothing wrong with how we got here, are not capable of becoming the vanguards of whatever liberty we win for our posterity.