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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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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I mean what else can you call it when you get told King George's taxes are ruining your life, signing up for the army and getting your damn leg blown off by a cannon, and then being told that 1) there's no pension available for you, sorry and 2) oh you still have to pay taxes
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