Living under tyranny is the normal state of the human race. Because so many of us were born here during a time of relatively more freedom than is the norm for human civilization, we have much to learn in a short time about living under a dictatorship - one that appears to be a coming oligarchy not terribly different than old style monarchy but far, far more perverse and with the tools to be very heavy handed.
A Republic, if you can keep it....it was our generations here now that ushered in the final failures. Government of, by and for the people was too hard a lift in the end. It now appears to vanished indeed from the face of the Earth.
So, will the 47% that get us there have any regrets after full implementation of Oceania and Big Brother?