Michael Barone thinks so.
The View from Alexandria
In advanced civilizations the period loosely called Alexandrian is usually associated with flexible morals, perfunctory religion, populist standards and cosmopolitan tastes, feminism, exotic cults, and the rapid turnover of high and low fads—in short, a falling away (which is all that decadence means) from the strictness of traditional rules, embodied in character and inforced from within. — Jacques Barzun
The View from Alexandria 
Is Blagojevich Stupid you ask! Well let put it this away, compared to who Barack? I would say that the two are equal when it comes to stupid.
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/12/13/did-obama-meet-with-blagojevich-monday-and-tuesday-december-1st-and-2nd-in-philadelphia-you-decide/