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[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/americans-when-did-you-learn-about-civics-in-k-12-education.964398/

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One of the things that drives me up the wall in political discussion is the lack of understanding of how the branches of government work or what federalism even is.

ERA is not my only online home--unfortunately lol. So I find myself discussing politics in other areas of the internet. The amount of people that think the President is some God king that can will laws into existence is baffling. And just 1 in 3 of natural born citizens can pass a citizenship exam. https://citizensandscholars.org/res...1-in-3-americans-would-pass-citizenship-test/

Recently, I've been perplexed at what folks think the VP does. Folks blaming Kamala for things that she has no Constitutional authority to do.

What's crazy is that the same folks that think The Constitution is infallible and that it should be followed to the letter, like some holy text, have never read it! I guess you see that in religious fundamentalism too funnily enough, cherry picked texts without full context.

I'm not going to blame individuals. It's definitely a systemic educational flaw here. From what I've seen Civics tends to be taught in HS mostly and in the later grades. Many times it is an elective too. But, as most Americans know, we check out in the later grades of HS. This seems very bad since voting and a representative democracy needs and informed population for it to work. At the same, there seems to be worldwide clamoring for autocratic nonsense, which is a more complex topic honestly.

To answer my own question, I took dedicated Civics in the 10th grade.

Also, I do have to give props to Schoolhouse Rocks.

Wait until he sees what gets posted on ResetERA.com from its most prominent members!