>The entire point of having a liberal democracy is that we are the government, and we can pull it back from authoritarianism.

We technically can. We also can technically elect people that understand technology. But practically its 100x more likely that I, a person that works with technology for a living, magically finds a way to provide my family with a decent lifestyle doing somethign that doesn't use computers at all. And I view the chances of that happening to be almost non-existent.