Here is the thing... You can work on both of those. Literacy is not capped by your intelligence, unless you are exceptionally challenged, like mentally unfit to live by yourself challenged. You can read more books, and journal articles, and expand your reading ability.
IQ is mostly bullshit. The test can help identify if you have a disability, but it's relatively worthless for determining how intelligent you can actually be. You can practice pattern recognition and then take an IQ test, but all that means is that you are good at recognizing patterns. There are plenty of "High IQ" people who can't figure out basic shit, like how to put on a spare tire.
So don't feel bad if you don't score well on those tests. They only measure how you did one time on one test.
Part of this statistic is because we have a high immigrant population that doesn’t speak English as their primary language.
Let's not blame the immigrants for this.
First, there is no official language of the US. Literacy tests can be administered in Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, or whatever language the subject predominantly uses.
Second, the US does not have unusually high ratio of immigrant. That's a lie that had been created by right-wing bigots. The US is about 14% immigrant, which is not unusual compared to European countries.
Anecdotally, most of the complete dipshits I know are born in the US. The people that manage to immigrate are the individuala who can read and write well enough to understand immigration documents (with the help of a lawyer), and have a decent chunk of money, or necessary skillset to sustain their finances in the US.
I'd say this is a point for electric cars, but it's only a matter of time until those start playing ads... And you're gonna be there for 10-30 minutes....
Yep. Totally true. You are born, and the taxes are automatically deducted from your existence. There is no way for a state to change the amount paid, or to whom the taxes are paid. Absolutely impossible.
Ah, so you know first-hand what I'm talking about. All this shit going on in the US, and your populace just barely didn't shoehorn themselves into a far right shithole.
The biggest mistake you can make, is thinking that it can only happen in the US.
The UK seems to keep letting Boris do shit in government.
AfD in Germany doubled their power in the last election.
Duterte hit the scene in the Philippines before trump in the US.
Italy just elected a far-right PM.
The biggest mistake you can make regarding the conservative dipshit death cult in the US, is assuming that your fellow dumbass citizens aren't vulnerable to the exact same rhetoric.
One bullet 2 inches to the right could have stopped them from ever starting.