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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One of the reasons Edmund Burke loved the American Revolution so much is the new US government revolution-proofed itself -- sending Tom Paine away, brutally putting down Shays' Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion "One revolution was enough, no more"
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Burkean conservatives strongly agree with this and think of the alternate history where "the 13 colonies dissolved into constant war and chaos for the next fifty years" as a horrific worst-case scenario But, I mean... that's exactly why the American Revolution was bullshit
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