What really surprised me about the Democratic primary (and I’m saying this as an Otherplacian, for whom the US politics are primarily a spectator sport) was how many of the most ardent and passionate people didn’t understand squat about the primary process, or the role of the delegates, or the electoral college, or the US voting system and why it makes third parties in the presidential election into spoilers, and so on and on.
What the US really, really needs is a comprehensive reform to how people are taught civics.
