The Founding Fathers disagree with you:
Now, I hate to argue from authority, but damn, that’s Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John & Samuel Adams, John Hancock and a host of other greats, in whose shadow we don’t even deserve to be.
If those great men say they were living under tyranny, and took the time to so prove in one of the greatest documents of all time- then they lived under tyranny. Sorry dude, you lose the internet.