Warning/Disclaimer - Dystopian ranting to follow.

Ok, so both Orwell's future and Huxley's future are coming to pass, Big Brother sees all and we're happy for it because we're so well sedated. (The U.S. has the best soma, chemical and social we've ever seen, never has a population with access to so much done so little) Anyone who tries to expose the abuses of power by their own government is labeled a terrorist and cannot stay safely in the U.S. or in fact, cannot stay safely ANYWHERE. There is nothing standing between your average citizen of the planet and a jail cell, or a drone-launched hellfire missle, except for the whims of a few massively powerful persons who are not elected officials, but installed bureaucratic kings and corporate entities that are actually larger than world governements. What do we do about it? What can your average person in the developed world (U.S., Canada, most of Europe, parts of Asia and the Middle East) do to stop the steel walls of oppression from slamming down on democracy and self-determination? Can we do anything about it? If an open, armed rebellion became the last hope of democracy, would the populace of the 'Developed' world have the stomach for it?