The worst and most fundamental lie about the concept of "civics class" is pretending our system was engineered intentionally and every feature of it has some kind of "design goal" It's the same error as attributing telos to biological evolution but actually worse https://twitter.com/shaunltd/status/1261434637441626113 …
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"Why do they keep just moving the ball back and forth like that, I don't understand, which way do they want the ball to go"
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Glurgey patriots keep trying to spin this as positive too That the Constitutional Convention represents the "glorious tradition of compromise" But what's so fucking glorious about it Why do you think everyone at the table had a fair claim
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Whether or not anyone involved was actually a good guy a lot of them were really really bad guys You don't have to celebrate all the bullshit that was written into our Constitution to hold us back and hold people down You can demand that it be changed
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I always think of that joke from the Office, Ryan's toast "A toast to the troops! *people cheer* All the troops! Both sides! *awkward silence*"
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