If America ever has a real educational system again, we should make civics and voter education a critical component of the curriculum. It’s a no-brainer for any political movement that wants to endure. Our daily battle has been with severely uneducated people.

@shoq I saw somewhere that Jefferson said a democracy only works with a well educated voting populace. But see Richard Hofstadter on how that whole thing worked out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter - Wikipedia

If you never read this, it was written in 1964, and explained pretty much what got us to this MAGA hellscape.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics

The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Wikipedia