Where's the Civics Class?

Where’s the Civics Class?

Now that it has been plainly shown that our nation is being torn apart by political infighting, maybe we should get back to teaching Civics in schools again.

We had civics in high school— or was it junior high?— back in the day. . . 1960’s, that decade when a President challenged us to 

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can your country.”

“Back in the day”. . . ha! Now I’m sounding like our parents’ generation—you know the one—the generation who drove the nazis and fascists back into their holes. 

Ah, but now, those fascist bullies have surfaced on our side of the pond. Now they’re crawling out of their holes, trying to convince us that .gov by strongman bullies is the way to go.

Go back in your holes, ye bully Rebumlicans. We have a free nation to run here. Let’s see some real Republicans come out of the trumpian wreckage.

Nowadays the Dems are calling them authoritarians, meaning leaders who think it more effective to just take charge of things instead of following the Rule of Law. 

Yes, the Dems, the so-called “educated elite,” or the “coast dwellers” who make their living with their brains instead of brawn. And I’m one of them because I have a baccalaurete degree and I have nothing better to do than sit around and write blogs and novels after reading the Post and the Times even though I spent 25 years banging nails as a carpenter and plunging toilets as a maintenance man because I couldn’t break into the teaching profession.

Yes, I know this sounds like a rant, (because it is) but, hey, what else do expect from a 71-year-old baby boomer? A joint? No. I left that behind a long time ago.

But I digress.

The point is: why do our schools not get back to teaching Civics?

So that this next generation—X,Y,Z. . .whatever the hell they are—can be properly taught about our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our history, our damn civil war and the sacrifices that previous generations have made so that the young’uns of today don’t end up driving our Ship of State right into the shoals of destruction.

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