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As a very smart American, but one who never completed college level coursework, I can say that the administration of our schools at all levels concerns me. I have been noticing more as the years go by, how "not smart" some of my fellow Americans are. But America is a "Who you know, not what you know" Society, so I am a smart guy working in many jobs where I end up having to take orders from very, very dumb people. Story of my life, I am not kidding. In many American companies, having ambition, for a guy like me, is totally counterproductive. Strange, but true. American leaders talk about diversity in our workplace and society, and talk about us as though we are a "meritocracy" but exactly the opposite is true: mediocrity and nativism rule here. We have lost our Bill of Rights and our U.S. Constitution in recent weeks, without so much as a murmur of protest. That's plain dumb. I started this post intending a defense of America, but there you go. As for that beauty queen, I think anyone trying to think their way through an answer while nervously speaking onstage before an audience, can be forgiven her momentary lapse of lucidity. I am certain she is smart enough to function in normal life.