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ΑρχικήEnglish EditionDoes politics affect our lives? How?

Does politics affect our lives? How?


By Maria Papagiannopoulou,

First, what is politics about? One of the classic answers to this question is that politics is about who gets what, when, and how. In this viewpolitics is basically almost settling contestation over the dissemination of material products. This may have been a reasonable characterization of politics in the post-World War II period – a period that saw the rolling out of dynamic tax collection and welfare arrangement by a generally centralized state and a party-political framework based on a conventional left-right ideological cleavage.

Individuals ordinarily don’t like to talk about politics. Whereas numerous have their own interesting reason, the reality of the matter is that most individuals don’t indeed know enough about politics, so that they can have a significant talk. This could be a pitiful issue of our society, as numerous individuals basically accept that political affairs segregated from their day-by-day lives, and so they don’t allow it sufficient thought. The truth might not be further from that point of view. Politics is, in reality, so much intertwined with our daily lives, that it can effortlessly be the foremost choosing figure in nearly everything we do. The thing is, most individuals don’t know or care until it specifically influences them.

Politics is critical, so much so, that each law that we follow has been composed by lawmakers. Indeed, the products that we have in our stores are permitted in our nation by politics and fetched a certain amount due to the laws that are composed by lawmakers. The longer-term of each nation is its individuals, and so individuals ought to be mindful of how many legislative issues do influence and can influence their lives. To be impeccably mindful fair how legislative issues can shape our environment; think approximately the circumstance of women in Saudi Arabia, for example. Women in Saudi Arabia were not permitted to drive their cars without a male gatekeeper present. Only nowadays, in 2018, the law has been changed so that women can drive the cars without guys displayed within the car. This is often a colossal distinction compared to America and the rest of the western world, where a man and a woman have equal rights.

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Politics is the vehicle by which advance and alter for the individuals happens. I believe firmly that the purpose of government is to meet the needs of the people. Whereas we are all tired of the ancient fashion of legislative issues, much great has been fulfilled.

We need to understand that political contestation is as much approximately cultural character and recognition, as it is about designating fabric assets, and making sense of the dissatisfaction in politics produced by the gap between the value-based view and the messier reality. Only by illustrating these trends can we create institutions that can recharge democratic debate and believe in politics. No cruel accomplishment within the current political climate, but certainly worth our best exertion.


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Maria Papagiannopoulou
Maria Papagiannopoulou
She was born in 1999. She holds a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Teaching with the University of Greenwich, UK. She also holds a Master's degree in TESOL with the University of Sunderland, UK. In her leisure time, she practices her artistic nature in photography. She also enjoys travelling.