the committee and she told the story and i am not going to mention the school to save them but upperclassmen at one of the military academies were discussing the three branches of government with justice o'connor. she asked some questions and they could not answer them. upper castes -- upperclassman, top cream of the crop. one of them was trying to reinstitute social studies and we do not talk about these things. this country was not built on the same blood or religion. we are not united by -- we are united by ideals and ideas. if people do not understand them, know their responsibility in keeping them alive, if we do not pass and assimilate all the immigrants come others, into these ideals, they die. we cannot sustain them. every citizen in this country, jefferson believed would step up to the plate. adams, on the other hand said there has never been a democracy that did not commit suicide. and he thought we would end up with that aristocracy and the people would willingly abdicate their role. tavis: scary come in 2012, that is very scary. i want to ask, what this debate , this war on women