Richard Haass: American Democracy Still Faces an ‘Uncertain Future’

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HAASS: "That's the second thing. I would say, begin with civics, but no one should be able to get a degree in this country without being familiarized, educated, read the documents, read some of the history. Public service ought to become mainstreamed in this country to bring Americans together who are now living in totally red or totally blue counties or states. We ought to teach people how to navigate the information landscape because conspiracies and 'alternative facts,' there’s no place for them in a functioning democracy. So the lesson I take from this is, yeah, ye got through January 6th four years ago. Yeah, this time we didn’t have a major problem because of the outcome. But we shouldn't get comfortable. American democracy still faces, I would argue, an uncertain future, and that's the lesson we ought to derive from what we're talking about today."