The average person is told all manner of things that are incorrect, wrong and falacious via the media and the government and think it is real.
One day soon, though, like in the movie, your average person in the US is going to have their boat run up into the falsely erected walls and realize that everything they believed about the US economy was a lie.
By then the US economy will be a smoldering crater, the US dollar will have collapsed and capital and travel controls will be fully in place.