[Mortrey]

I wish there was another choice on the list. I remember reading a science fiction novel when I was in junior high.
It was about the massive amount of moron inhabitants of earth that were ruled by a few at the top. Everyone had been dumbed down.
Wish I could remember the author and title.
I guess I forgot, because it really WAS science fiction back then to me.
I was looking forward to a wonderful future in THIS country and couldn’t imagine something like that happening, even in the FAR future.

[ngat]

Sounds like “Idiocracy” if the few rulers at the top were slso morons.

[Cheburashka]

Possibly this story by C. M. Kornbluth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

[cephalopod]

That sounds similar to a favorite of mine. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron