On government tyranny, this is a discussion I wanted to have actually through a rational lens.

While I love the principle of a population able to keep the state in check, is that really happening in the US? The state seems to be increasing taxes (stealing), printing money (inflation aka theft), implanting increasingly authoritarian laws under the name of "anti-terrorism", and so on... at what point is the populus going to take the fight to the tyrannical state, especially with all the propaganda that keeps everyone divided?

This is a genuine question I'm not trying to mock the idea because I love it in theory. But all I see is the state increasing its own power just as it is over here.

Then you have other considerations like police in the US are increasingly militarised and seem to be power hungry and against the people.

The government has missiles and drones and all sorts of other shit.

And again the propaganda machine driving people against each other is sadly very effective.