We Stupided Ourselves Into Killing Our Own Democracy:

America's Anemic Civil Culture Has Come Home to Roost

For two and a half centuries, Americans have been handed the same civics-class mantra: a government of the people, by the people, for the people. It sounds noble.

It is noble.

But here’s the catch—if you’re going to hand the keys to the republic over to “the people,” you need them to have some baseline idea of what the hell they’re doing. And right now,…