It really does worry me that supposedly educated people are this ignorant. I was certainly taught how our democracy (and, for that matter, how the US, German and French democracies) worked when I was at school. This is so long ago now (the 1960s) that I can't remember which classes this was taught in, but almost certainly history, as we were expected to have a wide enough knowledge to walk through O Level General Studies without a single class. All except a couple of us did. (A Level General Studies on the other hand, did allow for a couple of classes a week in those subjects where you were weak - the translations and foreign language essays for the science students and the maths for the arts students.) However, this was a rather decent Grammar School.)

Aren't kids supposed to have Civics or something nowadays? How come I had a better education on this subject than political correspondents and journalists?

Oh, and I agree with your rant...