“Ah, but the elites would have theirs... heated homes, full bellies, lights that work, .... civilization.”
That’s science fiction. When the peasants revolted in the Libyan 2011 civil war, the rebels found Khaddafi hiding in a storm sewer pipe. Khaddafi was dirty, emaciated and hadn’t bathed in a week. That reality is a whole lot different from your sanitized fairy tale.
This is very common in human history. Khaddafi (and his family) lived very well for years and years. Only when their government collapses, and the infrastructure that protects them is gone, that the leadership are treated like Khaddafi.
As our federal government gains more power through regulation and control, and the power shifts away from the people, a tyrannical form of government is more likely to happen. The movements to centralize power are control of energy to combat global warming (government control of the people and the economy) and control of our health care system (government control of the people and economy) and disarming the populous (preventing the people from resisting tyranny).