Well, Americans didn't care and enjoyed their wealth while USA was toppling democracies, supporting autocracies, enabling genocides for decades on end in dozens of countries. The chickens are coming home to roost sometime.

The phrase the you 'get the politicians you deserve' is very apt here.

They've got their own autocracy or dictatorship now.

In Weimar Germany it was the same where people didn't care until it happened to them. Tragically for Germany, by then it was too late to do anything about it.