To realize the devolution that has taken place in America for about three-quarters of a century, look at the emphasis a famous Democratic president placed on liberty. “The federal government endorsed that civic ideal in 1946, when a commission formed by President Harry Truman recommended that civics be embedded throughout all college curricula and concluded that ‘[w]ithout an educated citizenry alert to preserve and extend freedom, it would not long endure,'” Saahil Desai writes in The Washington Monthly.
The good news is that we have “an educated citizenry alert to preserve and extend freedom.” The bad news is that they became that way despite, not as a result of education in America.
