Is that how the world works? Maybe you are right...if you don’t kneel to the arbitrary demands of the elite, they will most assuredly do their best to punish you in the most extreme manner possible. Still I wouldn’t say that is the way America is supposed to work, in fact it sounds a bit like tyranny.
It has little to do with tyranny and all to do with humans. Unless you are God everyone has people with power over them and being a troublemaker or unnecessarily annoying them will get you into trouble in every human social system.