Sigh. The City of Oz is DC and the Wizard stands in for politicians as he talks fast, promises much, and actually does nothing.
I’m putting this here because its creator intended it to be political…but I suspect a few of us might find this amusing for professional reasons.
Every history class I had in school ran out of time at the end of the semester before we got very deep into the 20th century, or by the time we got there, it was covered at such a high level that you would not be able to connect the stuff today to the rise of fascism then. I wonder if this is sort of the result where you have people later in their careers deciding what the curriculum should be for students, and there is a tendency to think of history as the stuff that happened before you were born, so what ends up happening is your median age voter actually has a poor understanding of history from the last 100 years.
That tracks with my experience. We spent wayyyy too much time on the colonies and revolutionary war, and the civil war. Then we rushed through stuff like the WWI and the great depression, leaving just enough time to learn a tiny bit about WWII. this was in the late 70s/early 80s so Vietnam was barely over. I would hope that these days they would at least discuss the civil rights movement and Vietnam and Nixon, but I’m not sure how those topics are treated.
Agree (for me that was early 1960s)
