As our nation approaches its 250th anniversary, a number of organizations are conducting surveys to gauge America’s civic literacy. The results, while not surprising, are alarming.
A survey by the American Bar Association — certainly no bastion of conservatism — found that 63% of Americans believe the general public is not informed about how our democracy works. But at the same time, more than a third (37%) said the public is primarily responsible for safeguarding our democracy. It’s hard to safeguard something if you don’t know how it works.
These various surveys help explain why former President Biden’s mantra that “we must save democracy” got so little traction: most people had no idea what he was talking about.
Similarly, a survey rolled out by the Chamber of Commerce revealed that 70% of Americans failed a basic civic literacy quiz. Commenting on the results, Hilary Crow, head of the Chamber Foundation’s The Civic Trust, said, “Without reversing these deficiencies in understanding how our government works, we are risking the long-term health of our civic culture and democracy itself.”
This deficiency is not accidental. You can’t uphold what you don’t understand, nor protect what you don’t know, which means our government can be transformed into something it was never intended to be. That is by the Left’s design. Case in point is the terminology used in these surveys themselves: America is not a pure democracy; we are a constitutional republic. There’s a huge difference. […]
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