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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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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And when people said "Okay well then let's keep on having a revolution then, until we actually get what we were revolting for" the people in charge used what they learned from the first revolution to cut off all future ones A fucking worst-case scenario
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