[ExI] GOV - chilling

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Subject: [ExI] GOV - chilling

 

>…If ever the need for civics to be required in high school was evident, it's now…

 

Ja!  This last chaotic go-around was the best civics lesson Americans have ever enjoyed.

 

>…A PPP poll shows that 51% of Trump supporters think that the President should be able to overturn any judicial ruling he doesn't like…bill w

 

Fortunately for us, the US Constitution is written in such a way that a particular politician’s supporters opinion doesn’t matter.  Had his competitor won, I fear the portion of her supporters with that view would have been even higher than 51%.  Fortunately, the framers foresaw this and wrote the way they did.

 

BillW, I agree.  In California, we have a requirement that students applying for the state university system have studied a foreign language (not just any, but one on a prescribed list.)  It isn’t just a small amount of study required, but rather a huge investment in classroom time (2 classroom years required, 3 recommended.)  This is in a time when ignorance of the US Constitution grows daily, while we are on the verge of practical realtime voice-recognition translation by cell phones.  So I agree:  the UC system should require 2 classroom years in civics (with three recommended) to replace foreign language would be a breakthrough in public education.

 

spike

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