How did American Voters Get so Dumb?

It's a modern fetish that we're brilliant while our ancestors were idiots. After all, they didn't have iphones, internets, or Kim Kardashian.

This is also academic consensus, for what it's worth: called the Flynn Effect, the idea is people do better on puzzles so we must be smarter.

Of course, one wonders if puzzles translate into, say, understanding mon…