Do people like being poor, oppressed and stupid? and what does the leader of the "free world" have to lose by keeping them dumb and addicted to the unsustainable pyramid scheme?
The answer to your question is YES, MOST Americunts are dumb, only interested in buying shit they don't need, find out who Justin Beiber is porking, or if Kim Kardashian and Kanye are getting along.
Take for example the recent NSA scandal. NOBODY in the US is talking about it anymore. They just don't care, and politicians have made sure to undermine public education for the last 40 years to produce a race of super retards that will build things like the http://creationmuseum.org/ where you can see Jesus ride dinosaurs.
It is the end. The fall of the Roman empire. Let's put it this way: 37% of Americunts can't find their oversized country on a fucking map (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-shehori/poll-37-of-americans-unab_b_150933.html). They are massively overweight, lazy and ignorant. They are herd, common brainless sheep, and they are fucked.
My apologies in advance to the thinking masses in the US (an endangered minority). I am not talking about you, I am talking about your bible thumping redneck neighbor
But what you said about likening the current situation to the fall of the roman empire is false IMHO. Such a superpower can't just live for only a few centuries except for a few circumstances ie a world apocalypse.