Oh but that's not important as long as we can teach creation myths in school. Who cares if our citizens can't competently analyze world events? If the citizenry was intelligent, our whole system would collapse. Don't we want America to become a place where firms compete for cheap no-skill labor and where elites make all the decisions?
From most of the stuff I hear, it certainly sounds like it.

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