While I agree that we cannot have a functional democracy without knowledge, belief and concern for keeping a "government of the people", a little mistrust is a good thing too. Having grown up in the 1950s and '60s when a simplistic view of "freedom vs. Communism" was sold to the citizenry, I know we can do better than that. In fact, Na…
While I agree that we cannot have a functional democracy without knowledge, belief and concern for keeping a "government of the people", a little mistrust is a good thing too. Having grown up in the 1950s and '60s when a simplistic view of "freedom vs. Communism" was sold to the citizenry, I know we can do better than that. In fact, Nader and Carson had big impacts because people realized that the federal government and big industry had lied to them. Ultimately Vietnam and many other foreign policy and environmental disasters occurred because citizens were by and large too trusting of their private and public sector "leaders" to do the right thing. An educated citizenry who believes that our system can work and makes it so could be our only long-term hope. Now how do we get there?
While I agree that we cannot have a functional democracy without knowledge, belief and concern for keeping a "government of the people", a little mistrust is a good thing too. Having grown up in the 1950s and '60s when a simplistic view of "freedom vs. Communism" was sold to the citizenry, I know we can do better than that. In fact, Nader and Carson had big impacts because people realized that the federal government and big industry had lied to them. Ultimately Vietnam and many other foreign policy and environmental disasters occurred because citizens were by and large too trusting of their private and public sector "leaders" to do the right thing. An educated citizenry who believes that our system can work and makes it so could be our only long-term hope. Now how do we get there?