I honestly think that one of the big problems with a "civics education" as we understand it is that it's premised on the idea that the system as currently constituted is a good system and we have a duty to try to maintain it Based on basically no evidence
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There are bigger questions than "How do you win an election" and "How do you pass a bill" "How do you dissolve a government and declare a new one? How do you write a constitution? How do you win a revolution with minimal bloodshed? How do you pull off a coup, if you have to?"
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The bizarre thing is that if you think this is an awful, monstrous thing to do, WE ALREADY DID IT The Brits at least have a more coherent reason to be kneejerk reactionaries -- their nonsense pageantry about the divine right of the monarch stretching back to damn medieval times
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If you think overthrowing an old regime for a new one is an evil thing to do, you should be bending the knee to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II And if you think a bunch of people writing new rules is absurd hubris, rip up that Constitution you worship because that's all it is
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It's worth mentioning that the standards for most civics education were written when the system was generally functional and so they imbued the constitution with credit it did not deserve (I know there are newer standards but they are almost always influenced by the old ones)
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There's also apologetics going on because when a system is broken in one side's favor, only one side tends to find it objectionable. Hard to credibly rewrite standards on a partisan basis, even if one side is demonstrably correct
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You reminded me of a comment a teacher of mine actually made about the Constitution. Essentially, she said it was audacious of the founders to start the constitution with "we the people" considering that the average person had zero input.
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They just created a new government of of thin air, acted like they had a popular mandate, and dissolved the articles of confederation.
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The first step of burning the old system is making near imposible that nobody else can do what you did so getting them young is just part of that. Otherwise they be revolution every four to five years instead of an election. Which I am not saying as inherently a bad thing.
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