now, bowling alley that was managed by a 16-year-old kid.

Now in my day, when I was a youngster, that wasn't that unusual. Yeah. And if you went back into old timey times, you know, back in the prairie, yeah a 16-year-old with the head of the household, it wasn't that unusual. But do you think a 16-year-old should run a company in 2023? I mean there might be some special ones but it's different. Things look really different now.

I believe I could have run a company at 16 back in those days. You know things were simpler too. But I think I could have. I felt I was ready. It wouldn't have been easy but I could have figured it out as I went. I could have gotten there.

Now compare that to the design of America at the moment. I'm going to read a bunch of statements that just tell me if you think these are true or false and do they contribute to the incompetence of the country.

So my thesis here is that we have a current design for our country that guarantees incompetence. And we didn't always. We used to have a design that guaranteed that the competent people would rise and take over everything. But here's our current situation.

We've got the teachers union blocking school choice. Should that make us more capable or less capable over time? Less, right? Because competition is the only thing that makes anything work and they're getting rid of it. And they also maintain teachers who are not good. They're hard to fire because the union protects them. So certainly the teachers union should make us all stupid by design. I don't see any way around it.

Another one, affirmative action. Do you think affirmative action causes companies who would obviously prefer to have highly qualified employees but also diverse — that's what they prefer. But unfortunately they have to deal with math, which is they can't all get qualified people because there just aren't enough. It's just numbers.

So if you can't get enough but you're being measured on your diversity even more than your profits, what are you going to do? You can start lowering your standards which has nothing to do with the capabilities of any group, right? This is not about bigotry. This is just math. That if you lower your standards because it's the only way you can fill your spots you get less qualified people. There's no argument there. That's a strict definition of cause and effect.

How about a tight job market? Well with lower standards we talked about that. How about the fact that in 2023 the media, the scientists and the experts in general are all lying to us? I don't know how different that is from the past. Maybe we just know more about it. But do you think we're getting dumber because we're lied to by all the smart people? I feel like that has an effect, right?

So I just gave you the story of probably the smartest person in Congress, Thomas Massie. You might literally like if you gave an IQ test it might be number one. And then John Kerry is no slouch, right? You might disagree with him but he's not dumb. He's a real smart guy. Super smart guy. Those super smart guys were arguing about