Sunday, December 2, 2018

Give the Gift of Civility


Related imageThe best gift we could give each other is the gift of becoming good citizens. In many schools they don’t even teach Civics anymore. Civility is being lost in this all so present divided country. Civics is the study of how to be a good citizen. Many citizens don’t even know how government works. Many don’t even know that the Capitol is part of the Legislative Branch, the Supreme Court is part of the Judicial Branch and the White House is part of the Executive Branch. People don’t even know that there are three branches to our government. The great divide inn our country is because people are uneducated and just take a loudmouth side.
Only 25% of Americans can name the three branches of government. 10% even believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court. So instead of just letting you and your kids play Grand Theft Auto video games or watch FOX News daily, go to Icivics where you can play video games teaching you how to navigate OUR government. On the site called icivics. Org you can play the popular game called Win The White House where possibly you can win the Presidency without insulting and name calling everyone in your path. Have you and your kids learn the laws of this country and play the game called Do I Have A Right? Maybe with knowledge we could have better discussions and less discord among this now divided America.
In that game you learn about the Amendments to the Constitution. It is time that we the people run our government and not just wealthy guys chasing evil Dictatorships for personal wealth. We need to learn how to be civil towards each other. Can we go back to just agreeing to disagree on any topic without being shot at or being threatened to do or have horrible things done to our private parts? We need Civics!
Looking at Trump’s twitter posts is a lesson in how he doesn’t know how to be civil towards anyone. Should we be thanking Trump for constantly giving us such an outrageous example of how one shouldn’t be towards anyone? Yeah Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln are dead and the Revolutionary War was a century ago but what it all stood for should never be dead. Our democracy can survive the rise of dictators if we just relearn what this country is all about. Collusion, Obstruction of Justice, Treason, the 25th Amendment, the 2nd Amendment, freedom of speech environmental laws, inflation, taxes, lobbyists, political campaign contributions by the NRA, gun manufacturers, prescription medical companies, Congress voting on great perks in salaries and benefits just for them can all be curbed by we the people if we vote, participate in lawmaking and just caring instead of just following the shouting mobs.Give the gift of knowledge and civility this season.

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