Just Fred wrote:

Man, perhaps I should have used the word 'educated' instead of 'intelligent'.  Democracy is a great experiment in governance, but it requires an educated populace or it won't work.

You can't simply say you are going to organize a form of government 'of, by, and for the people' without emphasizing the reponsibility of running such a system with an educated and informed citizenry.

Indeed. One need only look at the writings of Aristotle and other ancient Greeks to see the concept of informed citizenship developed and defined.

And it does NOT involve taking oaths or swearing allegiance to such chest thumping propaganda as bragging that we are the best nation on earth.