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| Source:CEDR Solutions- or perhaps somewhere in-between, which is where Americans tend to come down on the issues. |
"Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics is referred to as political science.
It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent,[1] or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.[2] For example, abolitionist Wendell Phillips declared that "we do not play politics; anti-slavery is no half-jest with us."[3] The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it."
From Wikipedia
If you read even 10 of my posts on this blog or have looked at the home page on it, you know that I'm a political junky. More of a public policy junky than anything and more interested in what's going on in Congress and the issues that are being debated and proposals that are being debated and what should be done, if anything to address the issues of the day, than whose up and down and political gossip and campaigns.
As I say in the current affairs page on this blog, we all pay for all of the government that we get and get the politicians that we voted for paid for, so we as citizens or residents, and as taxpayers have a responsibility to pay attention to what's going in with our government and public officials. Which starts with politics which is the mechanism that we use to elect our leaders.
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