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From the Center for American Progress: The State of Civics Education
Excerpt:
No modern nation on earth can claim to be a Real Democracy if Civics Education is not a key element of secondary-schooling. People must know not only the political history of the US, but also how politics runs the country today. I suspect personally that most people get a notion of political activity off the BoobTube (TV).
That's just not good enough. The notion of Liberty being the foundation-stone of our nation is fine but neither is it good enough. Americans must be taught also that the Electoral College that MANIPULATES THE POPULAR-VOTE before conveying the results to Congress and Gerrymandering are both manipulations of the popular-vote to favor either side of a basically two-party system!
Both the above election-voting connivances have been in place since 1812 - when the 12th Amendment instituted the Electoral College and a Massachusetts governor (Gerry) carved out voting districts to assure that his party would win them.
What are a people to do when their democracy has been infected by such complicities?
Simply not put up with them!
Have you ever met an electoral college voter? Am just curious. I don't believe I have ever met one of these far superior intellects.
By your reasoning we need the electoral college is because everyone is too stupid then why does this smaller group of stupids need more electoral voters then this larger group of stupids?
As long as these electoral voters are superior in intelligence then they should be capable of representing the same number of people. This whole thought process is ludicrous.
Donald Trump once called Electoral College "a disaster"; now says it's "actually genius" - CBS News
Martin Luther King Jr. said: There in nothing more dangerous in the world than Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity!
There were two kinds of people that came to America for European Lands.
1. The Democracy Loving People, who respected the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, Regulatory Governance and the Principles of Democracy and the Republic Form of Representative Governance, and they have respect for the system of Capitalism, not to abuse it, fleece it, and degrade it, They are the people who know and understand that "Currency" is a governmental instrument, designed to facilitate "exchange", to support the flourishing of a nation and its people... Not to chase it by any vile one can imagine, not to bury it off shore in acts of economic subversion against the economic systems of America, and not to be driven by Avarice. such ones who pursut that point and fact; is the types who have no sense of decency, dignity, integrity and honor, or respect for the American System of economics and the principles of Democracy.
2. The " Savage(s)"", who live by the edicts of savagery, act by the most vile of conduct and will engage any atrocity for money, and will disrespect the Governance, the Laws and the system of Justice; they have no respect for the system of Republic design of Representative Governance, and they have no regard for humane or environmental concerns. They have an obsessive drive to engage savagery, because a savage will be what makes a savage. They will contort Religion, for the sake of a savage angle, in their obsession of greed, and they will seek to usurp and undermine any and every system of governing decency, and have an obsessively savage drive to try and create a system of Serfdom, while pursuing to disgrace Democracy, by trying to supplant it with Plutocracy.
We have much to "RELEARN" and how to re-groom ourselves and our society, As To and About; how to live as honorably people, who are just and to build a system of ethnic based justice.
In the 1970's our schools were damaged greatly when legislation's impacted our society, which led to the diminishing of "Civic's" being taught in our schools. We lost that education value of what it is to be a "Citizen" in this Democracy and this United States.
The Far Right - wanted it removed, because it was post Civil Right Era, and for that learning to be promoted for a non segregated people, to learn how to further fight for rights and liberty in this nation, it did not like the move of Civil Rights nor of Women Rights, and the Many Rights of the Previously disenfranchised. IF people were to be unlearned about our system, they too were to be unlearned about our voting rights, unlearned about how voting districts function and unlearned about how our political and Civic system functions. Those of the Far Left moved as well, to avert the learning of Civics with a claim of wanting unconstrained freed without Civic responsibility as they considered people were being groomed for War Services. The element of the Vietnam War was a great impacting tragedy upon the American people, and people were distraught at the many lives were being destroyed and taken away in a war no one could explain. Later, the Pentagon Papers surfaced, exposing the mess, it future impacted the minds of people, and moved us even further from the education of Civics. On the Far Right, they become more enraged and wanted to lay blame upon the elements of cultural and ethnic integration. when bare premise and fact is, 'we ceased to "teach coming youth and the next generation about what it is to be of Civic Understanding and Learning in how to learn Civics as to the individual in a Democracy System of these United States.
Civics is about more than just how our System is designed, it is about the civil nature of what it takes to live within a Democratic system.
Former Senator Bob Graham has long championed a push for Civic Education to be Returned to Our Schools.
Since the removal of Civics from being centered in our Educational System, we've seen a continual erosion of our society and a widening disintegration of our social continuity. One does not grow up with inherent learning as to how to live in Civil society, it is a process of learning. We seem to have forgotten that very important point.
instead we have allowed money to become our focus in every aspect, and as a result, EVERYTHING in America has declined. Ethics have been disregarded and eroded and made void.
If we want to fix American we have to start at these levels of Education, and move back to what we once knew, and education our young in what is American Democracy and Teach the Civics, to education people how to live in a Civic system as civil beings in a Democracy.
... not only is a degree not a signal that a person is educated, it is a sign that they have had their brain warped by the brain molders, and are likely too ignorant to know that this has happend.
This is untrue!
There are certainly different political currents, but the choice of which to follow is for each of us to make. In fact, what has happened over the recent past is that Americans have become even less attached to political parties.
Donald Dork lost the popular-election but won election by means of an antiquated Electoral College that America never had the courage to fix (meaning institute legally the fact that the EC must report ONLY THE TOTAL POPULAR VOTE IN THAT STATE.)
Why is it too difficult for people to understand that simple rule? Why is it that some blockheads still repeat the inanity that "smaller states deserve more of a voice". A truly fair and unbiased vote for the presidency is that of the simple popular-vote on most democracies on earth - with the unique exception of ours ... !
We have No Kings, No Queens, No Kings Court, No Monarch's --- we are a nation of American Citizens, " "One Man", "One Vote", and all are to be equal in civic and civil matters in this American Democracy..
Democracy was designed for those who embrace Dignity, Ethics, and Humane Concerns and Respect for Civil Society, and the Civics which educates on how to live within the systems Democracy Created.
Those who rail and scream about Freedom... are often the greatest abusers of everything the principles of Freedom stands for. They are void of knowing that "Freedom is - only gained through Adherence to Responsibility".... and to be Responsible on has to know what the pare meters are that preserves what Responsibility Makes into Freedom.
The Truly Ignorant, think "Freedom" means to do any thing, any way at any time, by any means.... willfully unaware that such conduct is that of a "Savage".
Right Winger's avoid the subject about "Civics Education" , as if their mindset cannot digest what it is, and they certainly are averse to knowing the value basis that it is unto American Democracy.... Yet, they want to wave the flag, followed by their idiocy of wanting to dictate to society as if they are some model to emulate.
they look for post they can go to with aim to feed their drama lusting with a drama spin fix, and within their giddy foolishness, sling out their "one liner" imbecilic "go to phrases"...
America has to survive this madness for at least a decade as the old heads pass on and the new generation of young educated and civics aware people can move into positions and change the paradigm.
The damages which Trump has done and continue doing, is amplified by the vile of the Republican Led Senate... doing all they can to try and hang on to the "white nationalistic plutocratic agenda, of trying to prolong the damaging system of white nationalism of wealthy white male domiance. Of which, we've seen damage America for Centuries and Decades....
Time - Continues to march us forward... in this case we move forward, but through the madness and vile of these types acting like savages, trying to further their savagery. Unfortunate as it is, the contempt and rage will cause damages within society, as society of liberal minded people who understand that the premise and principles within and of Democracy is based in Liberalism, which is constituted by Majority Rule... Therefore, through it all, Democracy's Principles will stand and in doing so continue its move to eradicate such savagery from infecting and damaging the coming generations.
It took 100's of yrs to demolish the system of slavery from the perversion that led to it being sanctioned by and within government policy, then it took another 100 yrs for the segregation it spawned... and now we are only 55 yrs since the Civil Rights Act... Therefore.. within the next 10-25 yrs... and it may be far less, considering the advanced level of the spread of information and the learning curve which has been improved within and through the age of information, which technology has bought... It will become a taming of social media, from the wild west days it has demonstrated in its newness.... it is at a point and time it has to mature... and that maturity is taking place more and more each day...!
Watch what happens as Trump attacks "ACA"... when the poor and working poor whites that now back Trump come face to face with the devastation his attack is pursuing, they will be forced to awaken, by the only thing that can awaken them... and that is "coming face to reality" of not only their pockets being cleaned out, but when the death cycle increased due to their lack of access to health care. Then when he attacks Social Security, they will become rabid, and forced into facing the truths they have long worked hard to avoid, which is the truth, they have been "hoodwinked" and "betrayed"... !!!!! They will learn the value of what is Public Services and Public Assistance... and they will be liken to a person stranded in the desert in 100 degree temperatures with no water.
Then they will come to learn what "The Preamble" and its intrinsic value within American Democracy.
They will try every means they can to fight off that truth.... but that truth will cover them and the more who fight it will simply smother the life out of themselves.
From the Center for American Progress: The State of Civics Education
Excerpt:
No modern nation on earth can claim to be a Real Democracy if Civics Education is not a key element of secondary-schooling. People must know not only the political history of the US, but also how politics runs the country today. I suspect personally that most people get a notion of political activity off the BoobTube (TV).
That's just not good enough. The notion of Liberty being the foundation-stone of our nation is fine but neither is it good enough. Americans must be taught also that the Electoral College that MANIPULATES THE POPULAR-VOTE before conveying the results to Congress and Gerrymandering are both manipulations of the popular-vote to favor either side of a basically two-party system!
Both the above election-voting connivances have been in place since 1812 - when the 12th Amendment instituted the Electoral College and a Massachusetts governor (Gerry) carved out voting districts to assure that his party would win them.
What are a people to do when their democracy has been infected by such complicities?
Simply not put up with them!
the fact that you use the term "democracy" indicates your own poor civics education. If you can't be precise and correct, don't come in here complaining about the education system. And then your commentary on the ec, is not useful to an objective discussion on civics education. You already appear partisan from the start, if that's your intent, you're a success.
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