We see today... no respect for our government systems, no respect for our rules of order and law in the constant attacks upon and against our Justice system, we see the continual assault on programs and services that American taxpayer have paid taxes for our system to provide for the people and our society.
We see the wealthy make permanent tax cut for themselves, to promote the game of making claim that the tax monies we paid can't provide the services we paid those taxes to provide within and unto society. We see the system of the wealthy attacking and destroying "regulations" and ignoring even the division of powers within our government system.
We see a continual attack on the Media because it "exposes" the malice and the acts of the Plutocrats... and expose and present the story of their vile to the general public.
There is a reason why "education is structured to be denied to the poor, yes, that includes poor whites, poor minorities and low wages working people of all ethnicities...
This same reason is why 'the teaching of "Civics Education" was diminished in every school across the nation... Except in the "wealthy private and feeder schools", which educate them on Civic's to ensure they know what to "pursue to take control over" and use their wealth
to control policy and programs, where policy and programs only benefit the wealthy. They are taught the Sociology, to ensure they know what groups to target to ensure rage fills the streets, to promote the old adage of the wealthy, of "while there is blood in the street's, "buy up the land". We see them under pay people when they move into industry, and as communities fall, they come in and buy the land for nickles on the dollar... and the cycle of "economic gentrification" takes over, and the wealthy become the landlords of high rent, and class and economic divisiveness to control who and where people can live.
This is the system and design which existed in "Serfdom"; Serfdom was a dominant system under Monarchies. Monarchies, based and rooted in the wealthy controlling the governing of society, which is influence by the wealthy known best as "Plutocracy".
Civics Education in America was to educate people on Democracy, and the system of Representative Governance that was designed for a Democracy where "one person, gets One Vote.... in determining who... is to Represent by elective office. Today... it is about "who can amass the most money"... as being the madness of who is in the running for the position of representing people in office. Thus so... there is but one way to break that madness. That is for "taxpayer" campaign financing. And imprisonment for any who use any financial or other monetary based benefits in the campaign process.
To combat Plutocracy, people must be educated to know what it is, how it functions and have the understanding of how to identify it when they see it, as well how to identify the "tool" of Plutocracy and to stand in opposition of those tools affecting society, but it requires first the acceptance of knowing what the tools are, and to stand against the tools whenever and where ever they are seen.... those tools are ... Race Divisiveness, Monetary Based Class Divisiveness, and Gender Divisiveness, Inequity in Wages by the system of Low Wages... and games of Tax Avoidance, which promotes itself in Tax Credits that can only be beneficial to the wealthy.
It take an educated society to move past the long history of an uneducated society being controlled and manipulated and bastardized by the system and promotions of racism, the systems of economic inequality, and the game of allowing the wealthy to create and craft policy which become the cycle of trip wires set up to create snares for the poor and working poor members of society.
This requires people to make changes in the in-groomed acquiescence to this madness within their hearts and minds. It requires the value of ideals to make a paradigm shift in their lives... and that requires the true learning and understanding what is Democracy, and knowing the damages invoked by Plutocracy upon and against Democracy.
It requires work... often it is the type work, the under educated have been swayed from engaging, it requires people to face up to the ignorance of racism, and abandon the ideals and conduct of racial and ethnic divisiveness. That requires people to respect the principles of Democracy... and the values principles that were set forth in the Declaration of Independence .... this too, requires learning... and the will to invest in the work to uphold what is learned within that understanding of the basis and principles of the Declaration of Independence.
"Sadly, many simply are not willing or concerned about learning" - as many simply regurgitate what they have been groomed to regurgitate!