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Bag on it all you want, but that man has 6 kids which is probably 6 more than most adults on this site. As long as he isn’t a complete scumbag he will likely he will pass most of his views and questionable morals to his kids.
Normally you have a chance to deprogram these kids through higher education but Republicans have recognized this and are trying their hardest to sabotage higher Ed.
You're not wrong. Stupid people are outbreeding smart people by orders of magnitude. Nobody wants to talk about it though because there is no socially acceptable "nice" way to deal with it. Bolstering education is about the best we can hope for but clearly that isn't going well.
Intelligence is not a transferable trait, unlike physical traits. There's no guarantee that these kids won't educate themselves and surpass their parents in intellectual capabilities. All we need is indeed better public education.
There's no guarantee of anything in life. You can say that, statistically speaking, intelligent parents raise intelligent children though. The inverse is often true as well.
Correlation, causation, and such. Anectotal: know a well educated (i.e. intelligent) family, one child dumb as fuck.
What the "intelligent parents" bring to tme table: often money, but generally resources to educate the children. Send them to better schools, fund a college education, be capable of helping them with homework, enabling their outer curriculum activities.
That's all stuff that society could provide for parents who can't, but society doesn't. Thus, statistically as you wrote,
with the occasional outliers.