The US public education system teaches students what free people should know.

I'm glad you're asking about solutions. It is not really my thesis, but you're wise to recognize that if this is the problem that it is -- and it is -- we're in a kind of dire predicament.There are skills that every citizen needs to know, to keep a people-driven government healthy and effective.There are skills that every free person needs to understand, just as part of being free.And the public education system is woefully failing to provide for these desperate needs. It's kind of scary to really let it sink in, how far from a healthy spot that we are in. In the political arenas, there's a lot of theater and drama over freedom dying because this or that person got into power. Who gets into power is just a symptom, though. This is the real underlying problem.And it's a bad one, right? That's the bad news. But there is good news, too!Seeing the real problem with clarity, gives us the power of focus. Rather than simply being unnerved at things we know are beyond are control and feel hopeless, this is a real situation that, while difficult, is a tractable problem. If we can educate and rededicate to these values in a way that brings a healthy free-minded, thinking and responsible people back to the fore, we'll be okay. Things can really be okay.We do not have to rely on the government to do this education. If we did? RIP us. The government is unresponsive to the populace because this is already so widespread. But the populace has some tools of its own. We have non-government educational organizations, we have ground-up influence (not a policy center in DC directing educators to it, but a neighbor re-awakening in a neighbor who is an educator, the critical spark of an idea, that free minds must be capable of making reliable judgments on their own. We have children, and we have message boards.We can do this. We all have friends and neighbors who are educators; some of us are in school on our own.Technology has put us in a perfect place to start a New Renaissance. We can share it on Facebook. We can Tweet it and Medium it and ... Instagram and Snapchat it if we have to. (Oh dear Lord, I hope it's not necessary to take it to 4chan... but if it comes to that, we can go there, too.)And we are not some lonely island; though it is rare, there's an undercurrent of the educated that will serve as ready allies in this re-cultivation (nearly an entirely new crop) of independent minds. In the thinking industries--Silicon Valley for certain--there is a craving, a hunger for capable problem solvers. While many lazy industrialists and oligarchs see independent thinkers as a terrifying threat, Entrepreneurs see them as life-blood. And Entrepreneurs on board with this movement means money as well.But before we can launch a reboot of freedom of thought... before we start that big, ambitious, hard project to make things better with the full force of all our resources... First of all, we have to see the problem for what it really is. And we see it, don't we? Once the pattern is in your mind, we cannot unsee it. Let's take this knowledge and move forward in wisdom, on a path to make our future better.We can do this. Thanks for your participation here boozeandbabble. Look forward to seeing you around the site in the future. (When we aren't busy working toward an educational renaissance, right?)