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In reply to the discussion: I simply cannot believe that in the United States of America... [View all]Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)78. Those subjects are still required for HS graduation
In most states. Around 80% of them require at least a semester of Civics.
It's not education that's the problem, really. It's the failure of American culture and society to value education enough.
If they valued it, then every graduate of a state-supported college in Texas would have a thorough understanding of civics and history. After all, the state requires that every student take one year of history and another of political science.
And yet the state has droves of college-educated people supporting sedition, and making up nonsense about US history.
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I hear you kentuck and am also baffled. I lay the blame on the corporate component, money and
c-rational
Aug 11
#2
The F scale targets an authoritarian, anti-democratic personality profile that makes a person susceptible to Fascism:
Celerity
Aug 11
#44
years and years of daily hate radio is going to leave a mark. Brainwashing is real.
Blues Heron
Aug 11
#18
The EC can't be ended by a simple bill, an Act of Congress - it's hardwired, it would need an Amendment.
sir pball
Aug 12
#75
If we're EVER going to fix America, we have to fix the Fourth Estate. The for profit media. For profit social media.
BComplex
Aug 11
#26
It Is Mass Insanity When Joe Biden, One of the Most Decent, Hardworking and Accomplished Men in American Public Life,
panfluteman
Aug 11
#29
J6 should have been a deal breaker for any citizen who treasures our Constitutional rule of law
Martin Eden
Aug 11
#35
I think I'd add incompetent and dysfunctional to the fixing it part. It requires experience, intelligence, skill, and
Martin68
Aug 11
#40
The media megahorns are blowing lies louder than a football field of trumpeters.
Clouds Passing
Aug 11
#43