which country is the dumbest?

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44. Yes, especially given how hard our ancestors had to fight to get universal public education.

And break out of the cycle of a permanent ruling class that was based on the wealthy's exclusive access to education. To think that some of their descendants now seek to destroy public education simply because they're jealous and resentful of those who've made better use of it than some of them did.

But certainly I don't get the obsession with keeping our best and brightest OUT of public office for the sake of identity politics. If I have a brain tumor, I want the smartest brain surgeon I can find to remove it, and I'm not going to ask if he/she wears a flag pin, or prefers beer to wine spritsers. Ditto for government officials and people who are crafting regulations on the economy.