Trimming the Trees of Political Views

Conservative politics is a term that has gained a menagerie of meanings, and many of them should be detached from the term for the sake of preserving the important meanings of the term. Conservative politics nowadays refers to a set of political views that includes supporting religion, supporting gun rights, and a number of other [...]

The Problem with Politics

Politics have become increasingly more polarized in America over the years, as party lines have been drawn in the sand, and etched deeper and deeper. Nowadays, politics are detached from anything more than a most basic form of ideology to which people can subscribe. Politics have become more focused on irrationality and attachment to arbitrary [...]

The Plague of Private Donations

In today’s world, for a politician to have even the slightest chance at getting into office, he or she must embark upon an arduous process of establishing a political campaign for the office. One of the primary issues plaguing America’s current system, however, is the problem of political campaign donations from private sources. These donations [...]

The Party That Never Ends

Political parties, while important tools for the overall benefit of America’s democratic system, have become overblown and exaggerated, and have lost the efficacy they once held. Nothing proves this so much as a historical look backwards at what America’s political parties have looked like. America has seen many political parties over the years, some of [...]

The Future of Internet-based Political News

In the world of the Internet, print media is obviously losing steam with every passing day, as fewer and fewer people go to it for their news. Even television media are finding themselves being affected by the Internet, if only because it’s often easier to watch “television” on the Web than it is to watch [...]