America needs a crash civics course. Kentuck

[CC27]

kentuck (103,262 posts)


America needs a crash civics course.

They need to understand that they can lose their democracy and it will not be pretty. They will not be more "free". America will not be better with the autocrats and fascists in charge.

The lack of education has always been an Achilles heel for our country. They will not understand what they had until it is gone.

Many voters need a "Democracy for Dummies" primer. They need to know the three branches of government and the balance of power created in each of them. They need to understand the Bill of Rights in our Constitution and what each of them means, including the 2nd Amendment.

Assuming they were never taught about the threat of fascism and authoritarianism before WWII, perhaps that should be on the curriculum also?

They need to understand the value of their vote. Elections are not a sporting contest between two opposing teams - they are a time to choose which direction our country will go.

Ignorance will kill us all.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215930207

Democracy for Dummies? HAHAHA. We are a republic you shit bird.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Let's start with: Presidents can't mandate.

[SVPete]

A "crash civics course."? kt needs one, and the first sentence should be, "The United States is a republic, not a democracy."

The second sentence should be, "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves voting on tonight's dinner menu."

[67 Rover]

How many EO's has the figurehead issued?

[ADsOutburst]

The left needs a crash course in civics, and possibly math.

The government does not consist of the president, and people who are "in the way". Right now, Bernie Sanders thinks that two senators are thwarting the other 48; it is 52 senators who are doing that.

And if fascism came to America, it would look a hell of a lot more like what dems are doing than what republicans are doing.

[Karin]

Hi DUmmies.  Featured on Twitter today, an article from the Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/psychological-dimensions-left-wing-authoritarianism/620185/

[USA4ME]

The bluegrass primitive has some things right. Problem is he fails to recognize that he and his ilk are the autocrats and fascists about whom he’s warning others.

It wasn’t long ago that liberals would have claimed they had the exclusive claim to free speech and human rights. It didn’t take long for them to go to from that to “shut down Rush Limbaugh” to “shut down Fox News” to “shut down any speech on the internet with which we disagree, and threaten any social media sites that won’t comply with our wishes, and force companies to make their employees comply with vaccine injections, and let’s make it a law that those who don’t fall in line will be ostracized.”

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[Patriot Guard Rider]

A "crash civics course."? kt needs one, and the first sentence should be, "The United States is a republic, not a democracy."

The second sentence should be, "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves voting on tonight's dinner menu."

The third sentence should be, "A republic is an armed sheep contesting the vote on the dinner menu".

[Carl]

Talking about a civics course and then in the first sentence refers to the US as a democracy. 

[Mary Ann]

The bluegrass primitive has some things right. Problem is he fails to recognize that he and his ilk are the autocrats and fascists about whom he’s warning others.

It wasn’t long ago that liberals would have claimed they had the exclusive claim to free speech and human rights. It didn’t take long for them to go to from that to “shut down Rush Limbaugh” to “shut down Fox News” to “shut down any speech on the internet with which we disagree, and threaten any social media sites that won’t comply with our wishes, and force companies to make their employees comply with vaccine injections, and let’s make it a law that those who don’t fall in line will be ostracized.”
I would add, "and anyone who disagrees with their liberal agenda will be labeled a domestic terrorist."

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[ADsOutburst]

Talking about a civics course and then in the first sentence refers to the US as a democracy. 

The "democratic party" turns anti-democratic real quick when the subject turns to border enforcement, the national debt, police, and other subjects.

[old dog 2]

And if fascism came to America ...

NEWS FLASH:  It's already here.

Public/Private propaganda co-op.

Politicization of all the alphabet agencies.

Unconstitutional Patriot Act/FISA courts.

Dozens of other examples.

What do you call a regime that threatens/investigates the moms of America as domestic terrorists when they want to petition their local school boards on:

Mask mandates
Vaccine mandates
Critical Race Theory
1619 project
Fluid gender indoctrination

Sorry to rant but fascism is here, now.

[Zathras]

Democracy for Dummies? HAHAHA. We are a republic you shit bird.

Not only that but Kentuck spelled the name of the lesson plan wrong. It should be Democracy for DUmmies since they're the ones in dire need of lessons about who are the fascists in this country. It would be a simple, two page book. Page one would have one question: What does fascism look like in America today? What would page 2 be? A mirror.

[Ferrance]

It's not surprising how a thread on civics turned into all Republicans are stupid. Of course ignoring the glaring mistakes in Kentuck's OP (we're a Constitutional Republic you DUmbass). Until MM swerved into this nugget of truth:

MineralMan (139,532 posts)
44. We Could Start Right Here on DU.

Sadly, there are many DUers who are woefully uninformed about the Constitution and how Government functions. If we expect to educate everyone in the country, we can test our ideas by educating ourselves and those in our own circles.

We can also be eager, as individuals, to gain better understanding of such information. It is not enough to talk about educating "them" until we educate ourselves effectively, it seems to me.

So even MM realizes the DUmp is full of idiots 

[jukin]

I agree with the words the DUchebag kentuck says but not their intention. DUmbass kentuck really means a crash course on communism not democracy.

[SVPete]

It's not surprising how a thread on civics turned into all Republicans are stupid. Of course ignoring the glaring mistakes in Kentuck's OP (we're a Constitutional Republic you DUmbass). Until MM swerved into this nugget of truth:  So even MM realizes the DUmp is full of idiots

Credit where a little credit is due, MM does occasionally point out the unconstitutionality of some of DUpipo's wilder we-oughtas. MM grew up in a time when he went through a semester-long study of th Constitution, in 8th or 12th grade, with passing a test mandatory for graduating. He's got ~10 years on me and I did as well.