Ya, excellent points. I'd probably still make minor pedantic arguments about whether brave new world or 1984 is easier to defeat but I generally agree otherwise. i.e. if the people's lives are going down the tube, you know there's specifically one person to revolt against. If lawmaking has a zero percent correlation with popular opinions [1] and your elected officials spend 2/3 of the time fundraising [2], what do you revolt against?

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

[2] https://fortune.com/2016/04/04/john-oliver-congress-fundrais...