“One of the things that was taken out of the curriculum was civics. Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the ‘60s, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called social studies. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government - nobody knows what’s in it. It’s one of the best kept secrets. And so, if you don’t know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don’t know what is in that document, how can you care if someone is shredding it?”
Spin Magazine Interview (July, 1991)
Many people were either out sick when
these were taught in civics class or
they weren’t taught it at all but
people were convinced Trump being impeached meant he was tossed out of
office (wrong! Senate must convict..
same w/ Clinton) , and they totally
misunderstand the Electoral College
and why it’s needed.