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Where does America hide all their smart people?
They emmigrate. We are losing tons of smart people every year this last decade.
That's not true in the slightest.
The highest estimate for US emigrants is 9 million. Since there's no perfect way to track emigrants, the Dept of State uses available numbers from multiple sources and extrapolates it. The UN puts their estimate at about 3 million, but their data comes from censuses which can be inaccurate or non-existent.
Pew puts the number of college or postgraduate educated immigrants at about 13 million.
Even if we assume all of the emigrants are highly educated, we still have a net positive educated immigration.
There are a lot of good reasons to dislike the US, but we have always been pretty good about bringing in educated individuals.