Did any of these people ever take a civics course?
Civics courses are considered subversive in CA.
Since you mentioned civics courses, from the Podesta emails...
From: Bill Ivey
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599
“...And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all
been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire
to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains
strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands
some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven,
demographically-inspired messaging...”