We have a right to vote but also an obligation to know what the government is authorized to do. Henry Racette hints that we are run by civic ignoramuses who vote. And the quote of the week comes from his article at Ricochet.com titled We the People Are Failing Our Government.
He makes an analogy of an aircraft manufacturer granting hiring authority to people with no aeronautical knowledge. So it goes with our elections where the voters have no knowledge of how the government works or what it's limitations are.
Mr. Racette gives us our quote of the week:
We are failing to provide a competent civics education to our children, and have been for generations. We have a population ignorant of the most basic aspects of government but which we nonetheless exhort to vote, as if merely standing in the booth were the totality of civic duty. A large proportion of the electorate has the legal right to vote but lacks the moral standing to do so because it knows nothing about the thing for which it has a sacred duty of stewardship.
We can not blame the children for the failures of their teachers, who themselves know next to nothing about the nature of our government. I don’t know what it will take to trigger a rebirth of pride and interest in our nation’s history and in the framework on which it was built and the ideas behind it. But if we reach the point where we’re analyzing the wreckage following the crash, it will be too late.
Good point. As mobs deface statues and try to erase important historic events, we really do need more voters who actually know what the heck they're doing.
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3:03 PM 1/21/2020
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