I often wonder if many American now days appreciate how truly incomparable our system is.
Since teachers (along with the MSM) now insist on revisionist versions of our history and stress everything that is negative in the political/social/military equation which produced the U.S.A… I am not optimistic.
The premise that most young people miss and I think, many others have forgotten is that the U.S. was a gigantic gamble on the part of the founders. The entire civilized world held the lowest opinion of the idea of a ‘democracy’ in practice and had no confidence that such a system could endure…anywhere, least of all in a new, weak, disorganized, vulnerable and struggling nation.
Europeans had an experience with governments and power which was cynical and they distrusted human nature so far that their expectations for the ‘American’ experiment were minimal.
I remember reading that Napoleon I was shocked that Washington stood down at the end of his term of office. No one on earth could believe that an individual who held full power with access to all resources of government would voluntarily walk away from such a position. It WAS the most noble and selfless act anyone had ever seen!
I wish that this country could fully comprehend how remarkable our history has been. I am sure that once they understand, our country could NOT remain the home that it is to all and sundry who wallow in their ignorance and gratuitous hatred for America and Americans.
I think you mean George III. Nappy was not even in any real service at that time. But legend has it that Nap remarked that “They wanted me to be a Washington” on his deathbed.
And to your point, although my children were all taught in public schools, I always "home-schooled" them in US history.