Because they don't see the racist, slave-holding south as a past entity separate from their current reality.
If the federal government weren't stopping them, they'd re-enslave people today. In fact, they have via the prison system. So they don't want anyone closely examining it, hence banning or slowing the subject in schools if they're able.
Power of attorney is a normal thing, and it doesn't actually indicate that she's unable to care for herself.
It's something all people should seriously consider if they have a responsible adult child.
It has to be done BEFORE you're actually in need, because you have to be competent to make the decision. It saves families a lot of drama if the person winds up in the hospital and someone needs to pay their bills, or needs to make other financial decisions while they're incapacitated.
All that said, feinstein is definitely incapable of caring for herself, so she needs to go. But I wish people would stop demonizing this particular thing, since it has nothing to do with the actual issues.
The problem isn't people paying attention, it's the mass number of people who know literally nothing about current political events who then try to figure it out while standing in line at the polls.
It's a small subset of a subset of a subset, but it can be enough to top the balance when all the other electoral shenanigans are factored in as well.
As with most things, there are a lot of problems with the porn INDUSTRY that we as a society ignore, and instead tell individual people that all the ills are their own fault.
Men often define themselves and what it means to be a mean in negative terms.
Even when you try to frame it positively, being a man is less about being that good thing and more about calling something else bad, and trying to force people not to engage in that thing or risk their manhood.
For example, there were times when men were secretaries, nurses, teachers, etc. by a vast majority. In each field, as soon as a critical threshold of women entered that work space...men fled the field.
I agree that something needs to change, but it isn't going to happen by trying to increase pride or whatever. It's going to be slow incremental efforts amongst multiple men to undermine the voice in their head telling them they're weak or feminine or whatever for engaging in normal human behavior.
It's deeper than that. The entire regressive ecosystem is about convincing them that they are the default, and anything else is wrong or at least questionable, and that conforming is the only way to show loyalty.
This is up and down the chain, from the family to the church to the legislative bodies.