Ugh!! It’s All [expletive deleted] Politics!! Why Does Politics Have Such a Negative Reputation?
We live in an era in which news, pseudo-news, fake news, opinion are intertwined; Facebook, Twitter, podcasts and websites: who can we believe? The news cycle never ends, and, we’re never sure what is “news” and what’s campaign rhetoric. We do know that “sex, scandal and violence” garner the most “hits;” sadly, we seem to get the “news” we want!
A president can tweet, dissemble, insult, in past it was the supporters of the president. now, it s everyone.
Politics has always been a rough and tumble “sport.”
The concept of politics has its origins in Athens. Aristotle, in “Politics,”
… calls a city (polis), or as he likes to call it, a “political association;” cities are designed and created with the purpose of achieving happiness … all human actions have a positive intention. The highest form of community is the polis, standing ahead of other political associations such as the household and village. Aristotle … believes the public life is far more virtuous than the private and because people by nature are “political animals” and goes on to further say that people by nature are worse and more savage than animals.
Our founding fathers, the elites of our nation, were well-read, from the Greeks to the bible, to Hobbes and Locke; a compendium of scholarly works.
One of the prime purposes of “politics,” the polis, was to restrain the savage side CONTINUE READING: Ugh!! It’s All [expletive deleted] Politics!! Why Does Politics Have Such a Negative Reputation? | Ed In The Apple
