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Could we really teach about how things work? There is the polite fiction, and there is the reality. The reality involves miraculously good investments and othe
by burfog 8y ago
Could we really teach about how things work?
There is the polite fiction, and there is the reality. The reality involves miraculously good investments and other things that totally aren't bribes, especially because they are often done by spouses and children of elected officials. The reality involves trading scandal information to blackmail each other into supporting the uniparty. The reality includes legislation written by lobbiests. The reality includes winning at any cost, such as via election fraud.
- TehCorwiz 8y agoThe point of teaching how things should work, are "meant" to work in the ideal situation is so that when they get to practice civics they recognize those other behaviors as aberrant and bad.
- ohithereyou 8y agoA history and civics course could actually go into how none of those things were new, even from the founding of the Republic.
- cirgue 8y agoI feel like a huge number of people have completely forgotten about what they learned in high school history like the corrupt bargain, the guilded age, westward expansion or really any number of other absurd things that have happened in this country, or similar events that have happened in other countries. Those weren't just stories and they weren't just things that you needed to know for the test and then forget about, we teach them in high school for a reason.