For example, MAGA. Make America Great Again. They have a point. America’s not doing so great right now. Right? Our kids’ math scores are down. [crowd laughing] Our children’s science scores are down. When judged according to international metrics, uh, healthcare systems not doing so great. Wealth gap disparities increasing exponentially. There was an implied promise to a generation of Americans that if you do certain things, work hard, go to college, be a good person, you would have certain outcomes. And those outcomes didn’t materialize for the majority of people because baby boomers entrenched in decision-making positions lowered the capital gains tax… [crowd laughing] …so that their net worth essentially compounds year after year. In post-World War II, US leadership traded the domestic manufacturing industry for National Security by making the US dollar the default international trade currency, which gave America the ability to impose economic sanctions on foreign countries to a US financial banking system, but consequently increased the value of the US dollar astronomically, which made it impossible for anyone to manufacture anything in America. [inhales deeply] Although the logic at the time… [crowd laughing] …was that Americans were supposed to upskill en masse, away from the menial manufacturing jobs, but everyone here’s too much of a dumbass to stay school, so we just traded domestic manufacturing to Asia and the rest of the world at the expense of working-class families. But if you don’t read enough… [crowd laughing] …it comes out as, “Let’s go, Brandon!” 例如，“MAGA（讓美國再次偉大）”。他們是有一定道理的?，F在的美國表現得并不是那么好，對吧？我們孩子的數學成績下降了。 [觀眾笑聲] 我們孩子的科學成績也下降了。從國際標準來看，嗯，美國的醫療系統表現也不好。財富差距在呈指數級增長。曾經對一代美國人有一個隱含的承諾：如果你做某些事情，比如努力工作，上大學，成為一個好人，你就會有某些結果。但對于大多數人來說，這些結果并沒有實現，因為那些在決策職位上的嬰兒潮一代通過降低資本利得稅…… [觀眾笑聲] ……讓他們的凈資產基本上每年都在增長。二戰后，美國的領導層為了國家安全，用國內制造業換取了美元成為國際貿易的默認貨幣。這使得美國能夠通過金融系統對外國實施經濟制裁，但也導致美元的價值急劇上升，結果使得在美國制造任何東西都變得不可能。[深吸一口氣] 盡管當時的邏輯…… [觀眾笑聲] ……是美國人應該大規模提升技能，從低端制造業工作轉向其他領域，但這里的每個人都太笨了，根本不愿意待在學校。所以我們就把國內制造業拱手讓給了亞洲和世界其他地方，代價是犧牲了工人階級家庭。但如果你讀書不夠多…… [觀眾笑聲] ……這就變成了“加油，布蘭登！”