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I'm not in the US, so this is just armchairing, but it seems like you guys already know what you need to do but there's political reasons not to do it. The failure in education is intentional. That needs addressing and then mass campaigning to do better as a nation on many fronts. Patriotism needs to be used as a tool to drive national improvement, not as a shield against any criticism of it.
One of my own nations isn't doing well on the education front either, but I suspect there it's more of a long term "starve the beast" strategy rather than a "critical thinking skills reduce the efficacy of propaganda" situation. Still bad, but more callous than actively evil.
Surely it must be intentional. We have the largest GDP, have metrics showing where we are failing, and have examples of countries that are excelling which we could emulate.