“Yes, but not if you’ve been run through the school system lately. What is patently obvious to you and me is not to younger Americans. And, when they vote, bad things happen.”
Aside from working with my own kids, the only thing I know to do is gently let young people know that I think they are exceedingly pathetic for not knowing things like, say, the three branches of our government, or how to return change.
Maybe it will motivate one or two of them to pick up a book.
That’s one thing that I find incredibly frustrating about the Republican Party right now - they should be organized and leading a public information campaign. Cut through the disinformation put out by the other side (and apparently acceded to by the GOP’ers). We should be trying to get out of the definitional box that they have very successfully put us in. We should define ourselves rather than letting them define us.
Instead, the GOP seems intent on maintaining the same-old-same-old and not rocking the boat too much. Just enough to make it appear that they have a spine and support a Constitutional Republic, but not enough to actually challenge and change anything.