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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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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They got a bunch of people to sign up to fight against King George because they promised life would be better after And that turned out to be a total fucking lie (Shays' Rebellion was literally a rebellion of veterans who'd been left indebted and impoverished)
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