Government controls......That's the point....And a big country needs a big government.
The opposite of no control is a chaotic society.
So the present government might not be the one you voted for, but that's the outcome of a free election.
Not that another lot would have made much difference in practice.
The difference would only have been inside your head.
So you dislike tyranny....But I'm guessing that the opposite of what you currently perceive to be tyranny, is just your own version of tyranny.
And what you describe is fairly typical behaviour, not mixing outside of your immediate group of family and established acquaintances....I'm exactly the same.
Though I'm content and you're not.....And the difference is not other people or big government.....The difference is just in the way that we think.
That is to say, that all the external problems that you assume affect you personally, are actually only internal problems that you create yourself.
And the 1960's were halcyon days of childhood, never to be repeated....Accept or brood, that's your choice.....
Though ironically the Russian problem has similarly returned to haunt us.
And whining was your contribution to the discussion......I just threw it back at you.