I think lots of entrepreneurs will simply give it up, leave the U.S, operate under the radar or find some kind of solution. The other option is to become rent seekers – which they already have to survive.

Understood. But let's face it, the modern political process doesn't work for entrepreneurs. If they're not willing to make a stand, not even a stand alongside the employees who support them, not even a short amount of down time to make a point, then they will deserve the consequences.

Strikes are easy when everyone is an employee. The U.S. has a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of business owners who cannot just strike. By the time the Poles struck, they had been beaten down for generations. Property rights didn't exist and they had been living in a hard tyranny for decades. And even then, Poland is and was a smaller country.

Collusion is virtually impossible to achieve. Just try getting hundreds of millions of people to do one thing at the same time at great expense to themselves. Personally, I can't strike without permanently shutting down my business and firing everyone who works for me because I have legal obligations to a national exchange that I must meet every single day. How many other business owners have contractual obligations they must fulfill? How many people would destroy their lives for a day of protest? In the Eastern bloc, lives were already in shambles. There were no entrepreneurs who would lose their businesses. There was nothing left to lose.

I think you have a rather more romantic view of this struggle than is warranted.

LOL!!!

where has this been done? I'm not necessarily disagreeing that it has, I just can't think of where.

I'm pretty sure the political class is already giving slavery a try now. They're boiling the frog slowly (recently they've turned up the heat, but they're trying to close the lid).

leaving the country won't help you either. Besides North Korea, the U.S. is the only country that taxes based on citizenship rather than on residency. Giving up your U.S. citizenship can be as difficult as giving up a Soviet citizenship. We're already a soft tyranny. It's a small jump to a hard tyranny. A hard tyranny can last forever. If you think it's bad now, just wait.

Re; Fascism; Have been since WWI, and arguably since the Civil War.
Re; Socialism; Irrelevant, as it doesn't really work. Never has, never will.
Re; The Constitution; Is Propaganda. Has been since day one. The “Rule of Law” is shorthand for the “Rule of Those Who Write the Laws”.