• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    51·
    11 hours ago

    Noone expects it to do it day one. But they ignored obvious flaws for hundreds of years now, and that makes them the butt of the joke for sure, and they deserve the fallout of their glorious empire becoming an autocracy.

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        51·
        10 hours ago

        You know, civil society? The millions of people who neglected updating the basic rules their country is running on? That’s the problem when you write down that state and religion have to be separated, but at the same time adopt a civic religion - because at that point, changing the constitution becomes akin to blasphemy.

        • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          10 hours ago

          Here’s the problem with that… It starts with education, and in the late 70’s when Texas became the school textbook publishing capital in the nation, all bets were off.

          There’s a reason that in 1980 my 11th grade High School US History textbook was from 1967.

          What started being published come that Texas capture of school textbooks, changed the course of the country.

          NGL, sad as it is to admit, the boomer generation that came of age (now being called “generation Jones”) just as Reagan was in his first term was the last generation to get an education that included civics lessons as if they mattered. Afterwards, it all apparently went to hell.

          It’s our older generational siblings that came of age in the mid-60’s (before Vietnam hit) who became the insufferable reactionay MAGA jackasses the generation is known for. The change they saw post-Vietnam scared the hell out of them, and they’ve been reactionary ever since.

          My mom (who’s a Silent) has younger 'boomer cousins - whom I’ve tanged with online - that are MAGA diehards and bigoted as fuck - and they are unreal. Don’t wanna know… Don’t care and they live in such fear they vote to deliberately hurt other people. Horribly lost, terribly damaged Americans, and typical of the reactionary boomers born before 1958.

          The Gen-X, Millennials and Gen-Z got the shit end of the stick WRT education and civic and engagement as an obligation of being an infored citizen.

          Which sucks as it’s led us here.