Liberal perceptions of the country shifting more conservative are more accurate than the reverse on most issues
You don't have to like every Supreme Court of the United States decision to recognize that society cannot function if we have 330 million separate and competing interpretations of the US Constitution.
Government tyranny in a representative, constitutional democracy and federalist republic
The US is a representative, constitutional democracy and a federalist republic. What does government oppression (aka tyranny) look like in such a government?