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https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1656812778177347585 https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/16568127781773475... I have been convinced for a long

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1656812778177347585 https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/16568127781773475... I have been convinced for a long time that a test of basic civics and current events is a necessary (and possibly a sufficient) condition to fix most of the failings we see in representative democracy, but the Overton window is nowhere near it, and Ramaswamy is hardly the candidate I'd want proposing it. The whole question and answer bank could even be given out online or in print cosr free - my bar is pretty low.

zimpenfish 3y ago
> a test of basic civics and current events is a necessary (and possibly a sufficient) condition to fix most of the failings we see in representative democracy Currently I would suggest that most of the failings in, e.g., US democracy are coming from the Republican party and I'm pretty sure most of them will have passed a test of basic civics, etc., yet are demonstrably bad at governance.