They arent stupid, at least a ton of powerfull people that built and maintained US hegemony and the domestic and global statsu quo arent. The US foreign policy, the intelligence, inteferences and realpolitik, the manufacturing of consent and playing on domestic devisions, the narrative building and propagation, the coopting and neutralizing of threats and movements. They have been brutaly and depressingly efficient and successfull in their vast majority. You dont just happen to stumble over your current position and the safeguarding of the status quo for half a century by the FBI, CIA and state deparment being just bumbling idiots . Failures are a lot but the vastness of the actual threads and narratives and actions all these agencies and the government undertakes in the name of capital and imperialism are orders of magnitude more than them, often not even known until something leaks or comes up. Dont underestimate your opponent. Even if you as a well read and ascended in your political understanding communist can think that a lot of moves or involvement they have is mask off and incompetent, they dont give two shits knowing that they it will work for the vast majority of people