{"id":82644,"date":"2022-06-29T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82644"},"modified":"2022-06-29T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:45:20","slug":"a-less-imperfect-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82644","title":{"rendered":"A Less Imperfect Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“ACK-shu-ally, we’re not <\/em>fifty states. We’re one country<\/em>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Show of hands if you’ve heard at least one progressive, lodged far on the left side of civic education’s Dunning-Kruger curve, say something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the many failures – or acts of sabotage – of modern American education, perhaps among the biggest, most dangerous shortcomings is the complete collapse of civics education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern students seem to learn nothing aboujt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Why the Constitution existed – to provide a framework for self-government<\/li>
  2. What the Constitution does – limit the powers of government, and enumerate the checks and balances on power<\/li>
  3. Why our nation is called the “United States” – and why the constituent parts are called “states” rather than “Provinces”, “Counties”, “Ridings” or “Administrative Districts”. They are, or were intended to be, individual nation-ettes <\/li>
  4. What Federalism is – in the US’s case (like post-war Germany), a balance of powers and rights between the federal and state governments. <\/li>
  5. Gridlock was built into the system, because gridlock is a virtue. The government that governs least, governs best – and gridlock ensures minimal government. (This particularly galls “progressives”). <\/li>
  6. And perhaps most importantly? The Constitution, its enumeration of powers, and Federalism itself, was designed to help a nation that was from it’s founding not a whole <\/em>lot more divided or less fractious than it is today, coexist. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    With that in mind? Perhaps the Dobbs <\/em>decision, and the court’s new-found originalism, are a big step in the right direction <\/a>for a nation more divided in many ways than before the Civil War. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Because the alternative to a renewed federalism is a national divorce at best, and civil war at worst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    “ACK-shu-ally, we’re not fifty states. We’re one country“. Show of hands if you’ve heard at least one progressive, lodged far on the left side of civic education’s Dunning-Kruger curve, say something like that. Among the many failures – or acts of sabotage – of modern American education, perhaps among the biggest, most dangerous shortcomings is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-culture-war","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82645,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82644\/revisions\/82645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}