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Yes, I saw a graph the other day which concluded America is technically a great place to be 'dumb', as even their 2 lowest literacy rate brackets have a higher or similar income (adjusted for cost of living) to the average income of the highest literacy brackets in the other countries.
Not that literacy is the definition of smart - I know plenty of brilliant tradesmen and artists alike - but reading comprehension is an important part of politics and political messaging, and possibly why even with our own fascists in the UK, I don't think we'd ever have a truly Trump like figure. That guy gets away with speaking like an actual 7 year old.