A report from the Democracy Policy Lab at UC Berkeley finds Americans are confused about the meaning and practices of democracy and deeply distrustful of public institutions — and each other. Strong “democracy policy” could help renew national bonds, the authors say.
It’s due to a large chunk of the people believing religiously indoctrinated to believe a text can be infallible.
If you start from that assumption, it’s a whole lot easier to understand why the constitution can be so rabidly defended from change and why the fantasy lore of its authors is rarely questioned.
No, I’d really like to update the document. But, everybody else thinks the constitution is infallible, so yeah, definitely one aspect of the problem.
It’s due to a large chunk of the people
believingreligiously indoctrinated to believe a text can be infallible.If you start from that assumption, it’s a whole lot easier to understand why the constitution can be so rabidly defended from change and why the fantasy lore of its authors is rarely questioned.