An Electorate That Doesn't Know Its Rights Cannot Defend Them: The Civics Crisis Is No Accident
Survey after survey reveals that a stunning proportion of American adults cannot name the three branches of government, identify their First Amendment rights, or explain how a bill becomes law. This is not a failure of intelligence — it is the predictable outcome of an education system that stopped teaching self-governance. And for those who benefit from an uninformed electorate, that outcome is a feature, not a bug.