Well, that's one difference between the child's world and the adult's world; bad intentions appear to be pretty rare, but even the best intentions are stymied b

Well, that's one difference between the child's world and the adult's world; bad intentions appear to be pretty rare, but even the best intentions are stymied by ineffectuality. That might be an idealization of the under-18 crowd, though. My strategy can be summed up as, if you teach kids real civics, you provide stronger support for those with good intentions. I can't speak for other countries, but in America, I think that the knowledge of civics is rare to none; even on Hacker News, supposedly a bastion of intelligent and experienced people, you find egregious mistakes on basic constitutional theory. That's not really their fault: they've been trained to misunderstand how government works by, well... politicians with bad intentions.