“None of my kids were ever offered civics in a public school (we homeschooled it). It isn’t taught. Deliberately.”
My daughter is a junior in HS, she just completed a group project on “how to organize a social revolution”.
OMG you’ve got to be kidding.
Well they should be worried, their revolution looks like it’s about to bite them in the ass.
She may need that know-how someday soon. For the counter-revolution.
How sad. They don’t even know what they are socially rebelling against.
If every counter culture lefty had a CLUE how great the Constitution is TO PROTECT THEIR WAY OF LIFE they’d be on our side.
If you can, get her to read the first two paragraphs of Common Sense:SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Society “in all states” is a blessing, even though in its best state it is imperfect. But government is, at best, a necessary evil - and government is not always “in its best state.” Government is a commentary on the imperfections of man and society. A little thought about the nature of journalism - its voracious appetite for bad news - will inform the reader why journalism is “liberal.” “Liberalism” (so called, since the meaning of the term was inverted in the 1920s) is actually governmentism - the idea that more government is always the burning agenda of the day. ”Liberalism” is therefore a continual war against society. To the extent that " SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them those writers (i.e., “liberals”) assay to destroy the very word for society, as distinct from government. The absence of any distinction between the two implies perfect tyranny - everything is either mandatory, or forbidden.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)