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That's because the American education didn't even really exist till the 1970s...
That's when school buses to every student became a thing, and we stopped having one room school houses and started sending everyone to real schools.
From then till GW's "no child left behind" we taught every American critical thinking and empathy.
Republicans recognized that was a bad thing for them, and changed our education system to rote memorization and the lowest denominator...
The numbers in a year don't automatically make people more progressive, it's not an innate thing that happens naturally.
It was happening for a couple decades because we put the work in as a society. We stopped doing that decades ago.
And it would be shocking to find out the people who can't see that, got a public education within that brief window where critical thinking was actually taught.
Like, the reason Gen Z is the first generation to have lower IQs than their parents isn't that Gen Z is stupid, they're just the first full generation to all get "no child'd" some parts of older generations got it, but for Gen Z they all got it, so theres no one to bring the average up.
It's important to talk about this stuff, because we're still failing the kids in school today, and if people don't understand what's happening, we'll never get it fixed.