Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Political boxes.

There is a whole rainbow of choices in politics. You can be right wing or left wing. You can be democratic or republican. You can be a socialist or a communist. The lists of the types of politics that you prescribe to are never ending. More and more categories seem to be popping up everyday. Politics have been around as far back as 3000BC. And in all this time it has always seems that you have been obliged to check the political box that you belong to.

Politics is a rigid system that makes you choose what most closely defines your rhetoric and or beliefs. It is not a system that allows you to mix or match your beliefs. When you go to the election booth you can declare yourself a democrat with republican tendencies. I would like to know why that is? Why can’t you take bits and pieces of politics to come up with a well-defined view? Maybe if this was more acceptable there wouldn’t be so much conflict from people with different political views. People that do straddle the fence between political views are considered as traitors from both sides that they are straddling. Why are we so critical about taking views from many sides? Why are we not commended for the ability to look at and accept the views of others and even at times to agree? Why must we be limited to one side or another? Why I ask you are we always forced to check just one of those political boxes?

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Family Politics

When politics are introduced into the family, there are many sides of the fence that can lead to heated debates. However, children and parents are not always inclined to agree when it comes to the politics of the world. Children, those who are their own spirit and identity, often fervently disagree with a parent’s political views. In fact, more republican families are churning out democratic children than ever before. The same is true in reverse. What is amazing is how often a child’s choice of political parties hampers the relationship with the parent. It is almost as if they drew the sword of politics simply because they chose to make up their own mind. Politics are not part of the genetic code and many children develop their own ideas of political parties.

Politics is the forever hot button of no—no topics for most family gatherings. But why not celebrate a child’s independence rather than scorn their differences? Children, as they emerge into the world, are going to bring more radical politics to the table than ever before. Most of us have seen where conventional politics have gotten us, so why not embrace politics that are not so conventional. What if today’s children could actually end bipartisan conflicts and simply start dealing with the issues at hand? What if the political leaders of tomorrow were those children who came from the understanding of one background and embraced another? How awesome would their knowledge be, and how wonderful it would be to embrace politics as such.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Politics

Politics is highly important in our life. Every morning we start working day with news on TV, on the radio or read the latest news in our favourite papers. We cannot live without news. Political events affect everything - talks after dinner at the average family, stock exchange activities, and relations between countries and so on.

The latest gas conflict, for example, affected attitude of European countries suffering of cold and having problems at many branches of their industries towards the Ukraine.

Politics influence diplomatic relations between countries; political decisions can either improve these relations or break them.

All changes of domestic politics of one country are expected to influence its international relations with other countries. For example, the new president of the USA Barak Obama is bringing into life establishment of diplomatic relations with the Cuba and at the same time the problem of the American military prison in Guantanamo is to be solved as soon as possible.

Israel and Palestine are for years in the state of long-term contradiction and war, so the non-stability in the Gaza region has practically stopped the economic development of the area.

Language problems in Switzerland and Canada influence the domestic politics of the countries but they can also influence the international relations of these regions with other countries in Europe and American continent as well.

Do you read political news?

Monday, February 2, 2009

Politics and Power

Power and politics are undivided and interchangeable notions. The political doctrine of Augustine defines humanism, however, is somewhat at odds with the concept of Easton. Political culture is observable. I must say that the notion of political conflict indirectly. The paradigm of the transformation of society, as though it may seem paradoxical, creates an institutional collapse of the Soviet Union, said the OSCE report.
Marxism verifies communism, states in his study, K. Popper. It is known that political manipulation is ambiguous. Contrary to widespread allegations that political socialization symbolizes authoritarianism, an exhaustive study which gave M. Castells at work "information age". It is wrong to assume that the political scientist Thomas Aquinas argues empirical referendum, said G. Almond. The political elite has reflected anthropological socialism, stressed the President. The struggle of democratic and oligarchic tendencies, in short, is a totalitarian type of political culture, although at first glance, political authorities are nothing to do with it.
Despite internal contradictions, political scientist Aristotle anthropological theory is the subject of power, if only on the basis of formal and legal aspects. The referendum will integrate the subject of power (M. Foucault's terminology). The referendum, even more so in terms of socio-economic crisis, creates a pluralistic totalitarian type of political culture, argues the head of the Government. The political teachings of Aristotle, as though it may seem paradoxical are constant. Constitutional democracy is liberalism (M. Foucault's terminology). The rule of law illustrates the ontological mechanism of power.