If people dont know how the government is supposed to work, they dont know when it is being dismantled. Erosion of civic knowledge is dangerous for a free society.
I dont know if civics is taught in public school anymore, but Republicans want to destroy public education. Ignorant people are more easily fooled and controlled than informed, educated people.
This was an interesting concept verbalized by a former Supreme Court Justice. It helps explain for me why people living in countries led by a dictator accept their form of government. And it especially explains why so many Americans have accepted Trump as President. They dont know any better. They know so little about how our democracy works that they think what is happening is normal.
I have to say that this whole erosion of our system of government didnt start with Trump, it started when Reagan told the country that the government wasnt the solution to the countrys problems, the government was the problem.