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we used to have public education that
emphasized civic knowledge – the point of public
education was to have an educated citizenry to
participate in a well reasoned democracy. Now
our political reality is a Reality TV game show,
much more like football than Jeopardy. It has
become the major tactic of a highly competitive
either/or to keep the public ignorant of how
our system is meant to work and
heap on the propaganda