Why We Need a Civics Education
Feb 19, 2020 17:28:11 #
Why We Need a Civics Education
by Randall E. White, author American Popular Sovereignty @2019
American Popular Sovereignty is a new contemporary civics textbook written by from a populist perspective. Populists believe that government should serve the interests of ordinary working-class people.
Knowledge about civics is vitally important to everyone because government literally affects every area of our lives, including our rights, freedoms, safety, security, access to justice, access to capital, access to employment, and our buying power, which largely determines our standard of living and quality of life, including our ability to afford to marry, buy a home and raise a family.
Underlying all of our major political and economic problems is the fact that We the People are totally ignorant about participatory government and our public powers. We are the creators of government, yet we no longer know about our public powers or how to use them. For at least the last hundred years, institutionalized civics miseducation has been teaching an incomplete and disempowering version of civics, which is “all representation and no participation”. As a result, participatory government in America is now dormant or asleep, thus it no longer performs its traditional role and function of protecting the integrity of representative government and our civil rights by holding public representatives accountable to their oath of office and to the citizens’ public will.
by Randall E. White, author American Popular Sovereignty @2019
American Popular Sovereignty is a new contemporary civics textbook written by from a populist perspective. Populists believe that government should serve the interests of ordinary working-class people.
Knowledge about civics is vitally important to everyone because government literally affects every area of our lives, including our rights, freedoms, safety, security, access to justice, access to capital, access to employment, and our buying power, which largely determines our standard of living and quality of life, including our ability to afford to marry, buy a home and raise a family.
Underlying all of our major political and economic problems is the fact that We the People are totally ignorant about participatory government and our public powers. We are the creators of government, yet we no longer know about our public powers or how to use them. For at least the last hundred years, institutionalized civics miseducation has been teaching an incomplete and disempowering version of civics, which is “all representation and no participation”. As a result, participatory government in America is now dormant or asleep, thus it no longer performs its traditional role and function of protecting the integrity of representative government and our civil rights by holding public representatives accountable to their oath of office and to the citizens’ public will.
Feb 19, 2020 17:38:32 #
teabag09 wrote:
Why We Need a Civics Education br by Randall E. Wh... (show quote)
On the other hand, the citizens of this country might want to “bone up” on how socialism works and how to live with it.
There might not be enough of “us” to overcome Bernie and his millennial horde.
Feb 19, 2020 19:09:23 #
steve66613 wrote:
On the other hand, the citizens of this country might want to “bone up” on how socialism works and how to live with it.
There might not be enough of “us” to overcome Bernie and his millennial horde.
There might not be enough of “us” to overcome Bernie and his millennial horde.
Think but hope you're wrong, but then again.... Mike
Feb 19, 2020 19:44:42 #
padremike
Loc: Phenix City, Al
steve66613 wrote:
On the other hand, the citizens of this country might want to “bone up” on how socialism works and how to live with it.
There might not be enough of “us” to overcome Bernie and his millennial horde.
There might not be enough of “us” to overcome Bernie and his millennial horde.
Those who need to "bone up" are too lazy and allow fake news to think for them and feed them full of Progressive propaganda. You know what I mean.
Feb 19, 2020 23:46:46 #
padremike wrote:
Those who need to "bone up" are too lazy and allow fake news to think for them and feed them full of Progressive propaganda. You know what I mean.
Si Amigo, can I tuck my junk and put my lipstick and eyeliner on now? Mike
Feb 20, 2020 08:44:40 #
padremike
Loc: Phenix City, Al
teabag09 wrote:
Si Amigo, can I tuck my junk and put my lipstick and eyeliner on now? Mike
Ouch. What has happened to Americans that they not only accept this sort of degeneracy but actually encourage it?
Feb 20, 2020 09:07:55 #
padremike wrote:
Ouch. What has happened to Americans that they not only accept this sort of degeneracy but actually encourage it?
incremental brainwashing. Started with Wilson and exploded in the 60's. Too many tokes. Mike
Feb 20, 2020 16:31:54 #
steve66613 wrote:
On the other hand, the citizens of this country might want to “bone up” on how socialism works and how to live with it.
There might not be enough of “us” to overcome Bernie and his millennial horde.
There might not be enough of “us” to overcome Bernie and his millennial horde.
Oh, it's easy to overcome. Especially millennials.
Feb 20, 2020 16:33:54 #
teabag09 wrote:
Si Amigo, can I tuck my junk and put my lipstick and eyeliner on now? Mike
lol
Feb 20, 2020 16:37:51 #
teabag09 wrote:
incremental brainwashing. Started with Wilson and exploded in the 60's. Too many tokes. Mike
Earlier and the grass in the 60s to 90s was much weaker than today. It really started in the 30s but I'll give it the 50s (the cold war).
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