Tyranny isn't just about having strict laws. It's about giving political elite and their supporters special exemptions from those laws. For example, you're about to be told strict coronavirus lockdowns must remain in effect for everyone EXCEPT Black Lives Matter.
Every left-wing ideology - socialism, communism, fascism - is inherently tyrannical because they ALWAYS grant the elite and their favored supporters immunity from the heavy burden of control placed on others. The elite "need" those privileges and loyal supporters "deserve" them.
You can see this happening right now, with every single oppressive demand of the Left. Gun control for you, but they get armed guards; walls are bad, except the ones around their estates; your carbon footprint is too big, but theirs is just right.
Harsh speech codes for you, but the elite and their supporters claim that merely criticizing them, or even disagreeing with them, is an assault on their sacred speech rights. You were just explicitly told their political agenda trumps the pandemic lockdown that ruined your life.
Real history is suppressed and destroyed, while learning and repeating the new fake history concocted by the Left is mandatory. Your children are thoroughly indoctrinated in it, and you pay for the process.
Even "Abolish the Police" is thinly-veiled tyranny. The elite will absolutely have protection for their lives and property, and plenty of enforcement muscle to make you nasty little Deplorables obey their commands. Only the man and woman on the street will be sacrificed to crime.
The Left's private-sector auxiliaries embrace the core principles of tyranny with gusto. Left-wingers routinely get a total pass for online posts that would get others banned instantly. People with the correct politics don't get fact-checked or labeled for "glorifying violence."
This is all totally justified in the minds of the Left because it understands that real power, the kind it needs to "fundamentally transform" an unwilling society, can ONLY be exercised through tyranny. Real power demands immunity to the laws imposed on everyone else.
Oppressive rules that also apply to the politically well-connected are a check on their power. They would hesitate to impose draconian rules they also had to obey. They need advantages in messaging and propaganda they would lose if they obeyed their own speech codes.
Some parts of the left-wing alliance will readily admit they need tyrannical exemptions from their own "principles" to function. Global warming zealots will tell you THEY need air travel, cars, air conditioning, etc. to do their sacred work of saving the world from YOU.
And of course it's hard to hold a political coalition together if you can't grant special favors and dispensations to valuable supporters. Rich business interests will only get on board if they think they get the free passes they need to keep making big money.
Others wonder why the faithful subjects of the Left tolerate all this tyrannical hypocrisy, but it's not hard to understand. Some of them hate the targets of tyrannical control so passionately that they'll accept the loss of their own money and freedom without complaint.
This phenomenon comes up all the time in discussions about the economy and taxes. "Who cares if I suffer, as long as those rich bastards suffer more! I don't want anything that would make my life better if it also helps the Evil Rich get richer!"
Also, left-wingers have been taught to venerate their leaders as demigods. They're the smartest, bestest, most morally superior people in history. They DESERVE special exemptions from the rules imposed on lesser beings. They've suffered and struggled - they deserve rewards!
With this in mind, a good step toward resisting tyranny is demanding absolute obedience to all laws by everyone. No special exceptions, no free passes, no backroom deals. Say NO every time the tyrants claim THEIR loyal followers don't have to obey the way YOU do. /end
