[Cheerio]

How did this country end up with so many stupid people?

It began in the 1960s when the commies took over America's educational system.

Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

[Jacquerie]

From Aristotle's Politics Book V:

"The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution."