While I'm among the first to agree we have both RW and LW authoritarian assholes pushing to impose their agenda upon others, we still have a Constitution limiting government and a culture that prizes individual rights and freedom.
The Constitution has been a piss poor "limit" on government for at least a century, if not dating back to Lincoln. Moreover, Wilsonian progressives have polluted and debauched the culture, nearly to the point of no return.
Calling shit like it is will get you a lot further than those rose glasses you've been wearing.