Limiting access to civic education in US schools leads people to be less well educated in basic principles

The reason Donald Trump won is because he exemplifies men who think only of themselves. Civic responsibility is about caring for others, for everyone, not just oneself, and the easiest way to defeat democracy is to limit access to civic education, which is what has happened in the US public schools over the last 40 years.

The people who support Trump are not less smart, but they are truly less well educated in these basic principles. It is this that makes it possible for them to abandon the morality of civil society. As for the women who support Trump, I am dumbfounded. All his supporters have voted against their own interests. They will lose their health care and there will be inflation due to tariffs that will make it even harder for them to make the mortgage.
Margot Miller
Easton, Maryland, US