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Yeah people don't realize IQ is relative to education. If you cut education you get dumber people on average.
The US isn't just a dumb as a brick nation. We're immersed in historic and environmental factors that are engineered to segregate who has access to intellectual capital and who is tracked into jobs that discourage free thinking.