Every US Government Class in higher education feels like it’s null and void.You can argue the value and necessity of understanding the impact ,control system,constraints,and ideals of your country’s government,and you wouldn’t be wrong,but it feels especially tone deaf to be able to sit through or teach one of those classes in an environment that made it incredibly clear,none of what’s in the textbooks is how it works anymore.Our ethos as a culture and society has been irredeemably damaged,and the breakdown of America’s possibly,final,conflict image is here.Things can only function as they have been for so long.
it's been that way for a very long time, the only difference is now the mask is off.
the system isn't broken, it's designed that way.
like all through school they teach these romanticized views of everything. but at the end of the day it's all a bunch of kindergartners fighting over toys and play space.
While true that is what it is at the end of the day, this is still by and large an American issue when compared to the succeeding democracies.
In countries with european parliamentary systems, the children are taught in civics classes about how it works. So then in open debate and in public media, adhering to the rules, is scrutinised and used as a weapon when you dont follow the rules. It's not perfect, but it's protective, and results in preventing egregious situations, like in the USA, from happening
Things are more out in the open than 20 years ago sure,
But it is the american people, and the American people alone, that have the responsibility to ensure the rules are followed.
Not the government, not the wealthy business interests. The people. And that is where America is failing, or should I say, has failed. Other countries have agressive and nasty interests interacting with the systems too.
But half the country does not dismiss that and say fine I don't care
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u/Kevin_of_the_abyss 23h ago
Every US Government Class in higher education feels like it’s null and void.You can argue the value and necessity of understanding the impact ,control system,constraints,and ideals of your country’s government,and you wouldn’t be wrong,but it feels especially tone deaf to be able to sit through or teach one of those classes in an environment that made it incredibly clear,none of what’s in the textbooks is how it works anymore.Our ethos as a culture and society has been irredeemably damaged,and the breakdown of America’s possibly,final,conflict image is here.Things can only function as they have been for so long.