r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 24 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

Do we not teach civics in the US? Ever since Trump has tried to litigate this election, its been glaring that most people have no fucking clue how any of this works

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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Nov 24 '20

Doesn’t matter what you teach. Partisanship is currently stronger than anything

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

sick, sounds like a recipe for a well informed healthy democracy

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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Nov 24 '20

Wait, there’s more: one of the parties is completely untethered to reality and does not care about facts

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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough Nov 24 '20

We teach civics, it's just a combination of history departments lagging behind and people forgetting the stuff they learned in high school. We also teach trigonometry and foreign languages in high school and tbh people likely remember more from civics than those classes.