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Civics classes focusing on the Constitution and the more important Supreme Court decisions would be ideal. Too many people on this forum believed that Trump was entitled to an attorney at the impeachment inquiry and hearing. Impeachment in the House is an indictment. Under normal circumstances people who are facing grand jury indictment don't even know it before the arrest.
Maybe congress and its robe wearing cuzins the supremes should be the first to attend.
With the fake news, and online propaganda machines now deepfake videos can be created with high tech software. Should we have mandatory voter education in our schools for kids who will soon have the power to vote. I know there is some civic's education in high schools but with the modern age of social media conspiracy theory's spread like wildfire.
Liberals corrupt everything !!!
They most certainly would target and corrupt, with their brand of propaganda, voter education !!!
As always, it goes right back to "who decides" what the education will be !!!
The many un-educated in this country who just blindly listen to conspiracy theorist like Alex Jones do what ever someone tells them to do on Twitter. The office of president can it just be left to the voters who are easily manipulated by foreign powers.
Civics classes focusing on the Constitution and the more important Supreme Court decisions would be ideal. Too many people on this forum believed that Trump was entitled to an attorney at the impeachment inquiry and hearing. Impeachment in the House is an indictment. Under normal circumstances people who are facing grand jury indictment don't even know it before the arrest.
And people would know that to achieve an indictment, there has to be evidence of an actual crime being committed. Not simply investigating a crime committed by the opposite party.
It has already been empirically proven that younger voters are far better at discriminating what is true and what is not true online. Research by Princeton University suggests that baby boomers are 7 times more likely to share fake news on Facebook, a fact that is very much apparent on this site. While it's true that deep fakes are especially concerning, and I don't know what the answer is there, maybe the funds would be better spent on educating older voters how to use the internet.
You mean the "younger voters" who have been having vapors the last few days about being drafted because they read it on Twitter? Those "younger voters"?
That is an idea I can support. I wouldn't want it to be misused as a 'poll tax' kind of method to deny the vote to legitimate citizens, but for new individuals coming of age we can implement some kind of civics testing before a person receives their original voter ID card.
We are sorely in need of better civics understanding in this country, 40% or more of the population is completely clueless.
Socialism has never done well in a free marketplace of ideas so mandatory voter "education" and government control of the internet are its only hope.
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