From The Guardian
here:
What is tragic for America is the number of fellow-Americans who happen to believe, still, that a hapless ex-PotUS (Trump) is right. Or Right, whichever does not matter. From where devolves such a belief?
Woeful ignorance of a large part of the American public that have had insufficient instruction in Civics. Which is a course in how democracy works, not a lesson in impractical and provincial Political Thinking/Belief ... or whatever. Civics, though a "noun", behaves like a "verb". It is the work necessary to assure that a democracy is fair, independent, and competent.
Just what is "Civics" (capital "C" is important)! It's "short" definition goes like this: "The study of the
rights and duties of citizenship."
And how do we know what those "rights and duties are"? Well, that question was posed and answered in a study-report by the title of "2018 Civics Framework", which is the handiwork of a select group of people explained in Chapter 3 (excerpt) and its purpose explained:
Yes, citizenship is not just an individual right of all citizens. It is also a "duty" that we learn in order to assure (and participate) in the development of our rights as citizens. And not just wait for someone to show-up, run for office, and tell us what our rights are and why/how they might evolve.
Which implies a considerable amount of work. And, to my mind, requires a "standing committee" of select-individuals to pursue that goal. With an in-depth report now-and-then about when/where/how or why our "democracy" needs to evolve.
Meaning quite simply this:
That "committee" must come alive and perform (in a politically neutral fashion) the studies so essential to understanding truly what our democracy is doing and how it should be done ...