Ellsberg has said that Obama should be impeached (updated)

[JDPriestly]

94. K&R.

I wonder these days how government is being taught in our schools.

I have a paper I wrote on the Constitution when I was a senior in high school. I could have passed a bar exam in California with it.

Americans are so ignorant about the Constitution. It's pitiful.

And he is right. Nixon was impeached for things a liberal president and a good man is now doing as a matter of course. How the mighty have fallen. I feel really sad about the condition of my country. And Obama is basically a good man. But what happened to the things we learned in high school in the years following WWII. The Constitution was interpreted liberally by the Supreme Court between Roosevelt and Reagan -- and now?????

Where are we going as a nation?

This is sad.

I know someone who graduated from one of the top universities in the US and who took a government course at that university. At a dinner table, she was talking about some political issue and could not remember what the terms were for senators and representatives or exactly what they did.

The sad state of civic education shows on DU, I'm afraid. Good heavens. How can we claim to be a democracy when there is so much ignorance about how our government is supposed to work and what rights we are supposed to have?

The Supreme court is narrowing our rights, reducing our freedom on a regular basis, especially with regard to search and seizure and the rights of defendants in criminal cases. No one seems to understand. No one seems to care.