Right-wing legal interests funded by the megawealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips, which effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hard-line conservative legal views.
You’re underestimating the ability for people to organize and fight off tyrannical governments. It’s literally how the U.S. became a country at all.
Have more faith in yourself and stop being a coward.