I don't think that people in general are "dumb", but more distracted.
They are busying paying attention to all kinds of other things,
and hoping the federal government is doing their jobs, per the Constitution.
They think our system has been set up to work, without the people needing to act as 24-7 watchdog.
Making sure that we aren't being robbed blind..
But, the truth is starting to come out. We are being cheated.
And now people starting to come to the realization that times have changed.
We will all have to start paying attention to the day-to-day operations
of the federal government.
Our federal employees have run amok. Gone off their rockers.
So, we are just now starting to bring things back to some semblance of normal.
The same craziness has happened in some states too, as their populations are starting to realize.
The people of America have a lot of work ahead of them. It's going to take years to clean up the mess.