Excellent book. 👍

Our biggest problem is that our government is allowed to take from ONE and give to ANOTHER. That should NOT be allowed. The government is allowed to exist to serve the people as cheaply as possible in the interest of citizens safety and protection of their rights. Thats ALL. No butthead regulating transportation, no czar of education or medical care or banking, etc.

Of all people, Richard Dreyfuss apparently agrees with you regarding teaching civics:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/actor-r...

In his book, Dreyfuss asserts that civics has not been taught in American public schools for over 50 years.

Civics has not been completely abandoned by schools, as many schools teach a subject named civics,
but they do not teach about how the republic governs itself, and the requirements vary from state to state.
As a result, students lack proficiency in civics.

Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, said in a 2018 report (pdf) that large
percentages of college students could not answer basic questions about the American political order
because most of them never had any basic instruction in civics.

This reflects “the neglect of traditional civics instruction at every level of education, from grade
school through college,” Wood said in the report.

The Association of American Colleges and Universities said in its 2012 report commissioned by
the Department of Education (pdf) that “only 24 percent of graduating high school seniors scored
at the proficient or advanced level in civics in 2010, fewer than in 2006 or in 1998.”

“Among 14,000 college seniors surveyed in 2006 and 2007, the average score on a civic literacy
exam was just over 50 percent, an F,” the report said. “Half of the states no longer require civics
education for high school graduation.”

Wood said that civics in the traditional American sense meant learning about how the republic governs itself.

Wood said civics should include instruction about the government branches, the obligations of
citizenship, constitutional rights, and the system of checks and balances that divide the states
from the federal government. Students should learn how citizens take responsibility for their
government, which includes voting, serving on juries, running for office, and serving in the military, Wood wrote.

Civics also teach people how to get along with the human proclivity for having different opinions, Dreyfuss said.

“No one expects everyone to have the same opinion,” he said, adding that the idea that everyone
should agree came about because people stopped defending republican democracy via the Constitution.

This country is defined by the Constitution, Dreyfuss said.

“It requires a dissent. And it requires an argument. That’s called perfection,” he said.

During a Q&A session at the Hunter College event, Dreyfuss said that civics should be taught
“from kindergarten on and in every class,” not just in the highest grades, likening it to how the Ten
Commandments are being taught every Sunday to religious believers.

People should learn the Constitution “because it’s the largest step forward in moral progress in the
history of the human race,” he added.

Dreyfuss said at the event that he wrote his book to remind people that they are “the sovereign
power in America.”

If someone gets elected to Congress, that official is not the people’s boss, Dreyfuss told the audience.

“They’re not our boss. They are our servants, public servants,” he said.

If they do not do what people ask them to do and if they do not constantly ask what people want,
people should “get rid of them and take over the government that they took from us,” Dreyfuss said.

And every potential voter must pass the final exam at the polling place before any vote can be cast.