It’s not half the population, fortunately, but yes, we do have many big issues. The US educational system is a horrible, broken mess, esp. in red states, with the poor being utterly shafted by virtue of their parents’ postal code. In my state, TX, the GOP’s platform rejects critical thinking skills, since these “have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.” Seriously, that’s what they wrote.
If you want to talk about the US in an informed way, you really ought to visit, and take some trips though the whole place. There are a whole lot of pig-ignorant, poorly educated people. Most are nice, and they’re not monsters, but an all too large number are really poor at dealing with intellectual challenges. Things are bad. Electing Trump as an administrator in charge of the Department of Education would be completely disastrous. There are a lot of other states controlled by the GOP with anti-education agendas that also need fixing.
