How do you survive or even fight back in a dictatorship? Passive aggressive behavior. Pretend to follow the regime but do what you want. Do the bare minimum of compliance. Find work arounds for all of the new rules and regulations. Treat the regime as an occupying army.
There really isn’t much you can do but try to surreptitiously sabotage it at every turn, and keep alive what we have of our religion, culture, history, and society.
Sadly, though at some point, all hell is literally going to break loose.
Scripture is pretty clear what is going to happen to those who fight the antichrist.
They will pay with their lives here and now, but ultimately, for eternity, where it really counts, , they win and get to watch Christ just crush the evil forever.
That’s exactly what I’m doing in my deep blue city. I’m not the least bit affected by any of this madness. It’s very easy to slip through the cracks, if you a) possess the will to do so, and b) are part of a community of like minded people.