29 August 2018

How the U.S. government is supposed to work


lawsandsausagescomic.com is the U.S. civics class we blew off in high school ... everything we never learned or carefully forgot.

Greg Weiner, a professor of political science, and his artist brother, Zach Weinersmith of "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal" comics fame, guide us through American government and law — history, philosophy, literature, and how things work in practice.

How I wish I could force-feed it to everybody in Congress and in the White House. And in  the federal judiciary. And "alt" trolls and ignoramuses on all sides.

I don't hold out much hope for our democracy. Scare people deeply and they gladly abandon rights in exchange for safety. In Trump's America, safety is on life support.

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