More than once, readers have written in, or people have stopped me, to complain about their fellow Americans’ ignorance of the basic functions of government.
Incandescent with anger, they’ll complain that, while their neighbors don’t know the name of their local member of Congress, they can absolutely tell you what happened on the latest episode of “The Real Housewives of Ulan Bator” or wherever it’s now filming.
The answer, as constant as the northern star, is that the kids need to be sent back to civics class.
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