Somewhere along the way our schools must have stopped teaching civics. After all, how else can one explain the fundamental lack of understanding of our American principles of government? On pretty much a daily basis I read an article or hear an interview in which a person demonstrates unbelievable ignorance of our Constitution and workings of the government.
As a perfect case in point, I refer you to an article entitled “What Ever Happened To Candidate Obama?” by Katha Pollitt. The article is little more than a rant about the President’s inability to get health care reform passed in a timely manner, but the most telling passage reads as follows:
“Thank you, founding fathers, for setting up the Senate so that white, rural, conservative states with the population of Staten Island get the same two senators each as multiethnic urban powerhouses like California and New York. That little gift to the slave states of 1788 continues its antidemocratic work today.”