It was the financial ones that helped me up I think, all the reading about economics I've been doing gave me a solid grounding, that and I've studied all the theorists, including the Federalist Papers.

The UK is now bringing in 'citizenship' lessons, we've not had them before recently, and the lack of knowledge of the average person is at times palpable--I had planned at one point to be a history teacher, how that translated to IT marketing is another thing entirely.

The thing that bothers me is that the US makes such a big thing about the citizen-democracy thing, so to find such ignorance at such a high level disturbs me. We've always just muddles through, ignorance is still seen by some as a virtue, but we're getting better. Ah well.