The U.S. didn’t just “lose” 10,000 STEM PhDs, it engineered their exit.

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The U.S. didn’t just “lose” 10,000 STEM PhDs, it engineered their exit. When a government spends years flattering anti-intellectualism, purging expertise, and feeding its working class a steady diet of culture-war resentment, this is the predictable outcome: the country that once attracted the world’s brightest now actively pushes them out. While China produces over 5 million STEM graduates a year, and builds an economy that treats knowledge as a national asset, the U.S. is running a political experiment where angry populism is a qualification and education is a liability. This isn’t “brain drain,” this is a self-inflicted lobotomy, performed proudly in public. And when your national strategy is “fire the scientists, hire the red hats,” don’t be surprised when the future is written in another language, by people who didn’t have to ask whether learning math was “elitist.”

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china graduated 1.3 million engineers last year. the us graduated 130k. do with that information what you will. this anti-education slant makes a malleable workforce that's easier to dominate by the capital owning class, but it makes us a dumber country overall and AI wont fix it x.com/DrCatharineY/s…

2:42 PM · Jan 28, 2026

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