yes but it helps

In time and in a roundabout way it may well do.

It is an extremely powerful tool to achieve that end though

But it definitely helps to protect oneself against it! Bitcoin is freedom money and the hardest money humanity has ever known, and a primary tool for a sovereign individual. Has the pendulum begun to swing the other way yet?

Yes. But cryptography can help create good government. I believe in a society based on protocols that decentralize power through cryptography.