Yes they are dumb.
We are having to let go of the SATS so they may get into schools.
They are the weakest generation.
I don’t think they are as dumb as they are completely indoctrinated.
Consider what most of the kids listen to (at least up here) from the time they enter the public (read socialist) school system, then onto even more socialist high school, and then flaming left-wing colleges and universities. Add to this the constant drum-beat of the liberal (socialist) media and the complete buffoons in Hollywood, and it’s little wonder they spew out the same garbage.
I am amazed there are any conservatives at all among them. The only people teaching them any conservative principles would be their parents and relatives. Even at that, conservative parents still have to deprogram them of all of the nonsense they hear.
Getting some conservative teaching into the public school system would be a good place to start....but good luck with that.