Try driving fast down a sparsely traveled highway on a clear day with your own car on roads you paid for. You'll get pulled over and have to pay even more money to the state (as if gas taxes, tolls, driver's license fees, etc... aren't enough). That's if your lucky. In some states, you can go to jail for exceeding the speed limit by a certain amount.
Try starting a new business. You have to worry about literally hundreds of thousands of laws and regulations. There are so many rules, you're bound to be guilty of something, so your only hope is to not piss off the 'powers that be'. Even if you be a "chump" and succeed in this, there is always the problem of civil lawsuits by parasitic ambulance chasers who can and will take everything you own.
Try carrying a gun. Here in Florida, it is a FELONY to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. It's also illegal to carry openly, even with a permit. Simply exercising your rights is enough to ruin your life. It's even worse in other states.
Try talking about God in a public school. Expect to be suspended if you're a student, or have "child services" called to investigate.
Try talking about the Constitution to anyone in "authority". They'll look at you like you are crazy if they don't laugh in your face.
The list is endless, and anyone could go on with more examples. But the bottom line is that Freedom has been an extremely rare thing throughout history, and ours is slipping away under the guise of "majority rule" and "safety". Tyrants and traitors have infiltrated the government. This has been going on for years and years. And like a cancer, they are destroying America.
Is the ballot box the answer? Maybe, but how is the ballot box the answer when your vote-- the vote of a self sufficient man or woman-- is cancelled out by an illegal immigrant, or an illiterate drug addict, or a welfare slut?