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this is like, concrete proof of how little intelligence is valued in this country

See Also: understanding climate change, other cultures or how nuclear power works.

Those “nerd” topics where you have to admit you don’t know everything, learn a new principle and apply it. 

America is deeply anti-expertise in all respects. Sort of an extension (and I am cribbing someone else here) how free speech has become my-speech-is-as-good-as-your-speech but applied more broadly to ideas and especially those backed by empirical knowledge/study. Congress is like High School all over again, knowing how [insert policy] actually works will get you beat up and shushed. 

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