Snarky name aside, the purpose of this website is educational. The United States has the potential to be the greatest country in the world, due largely to our democratic system of government and specific freedoms enshrined by the Founders to us. Lately, however, we have been in a decline– not necessarily economically, culturally, or militarily– but civically.
This site seeks to be a single small oar in the water, rowing towards good governance and a responsive electorate. Civics education seems to be woefully inadequate these days, and political partisanship is a knee-jerk response that has divided the nation. Therefore, this blog seeks to de-mystify how government and politics works (or is supposed to work), explaining complicated processes in (hopefully) more understandable terms.
I hope to present accessible examples often with a sense of humor, but I will try to avoid being too cynical– our polity counts on us engaging with each other in good faith debates about how we express our values as a society, not by “owning” each other with memes. It is difficult to talk about the U.S. government these days without someone suggesting “they’re all crooks” or referencing “the mess we’re in” without further elaboration– this blog hopes to provide some clarification and give readers faith in the system, if not the people actually in charge currently.