What's your political philosophy?

answers1: Might makes right is a warped philosophy. If you remember
'Lord of the Flies' - the stronger members of the group eventually
gain power, and the stable society inhabited by Ralph ? and Piggy
begins to break down, anarchy reigns supreme. <br>
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Since the majority of people are totally uninterested in politics
(unless something drastic forces them to be) it seems to me that it is
the most powerful and the most persuasive on TV who will be
elected...based on personalities rather than policies. <br>
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Government is the elected members and the civil servants....I think we
could do away with the elected members and let the civil servants do
their job...I don't think many people would notice any difference in
their day to day existence. <br>
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A government is legitimate if lawfully elected (however ignorant the
electorate) by a majority <br>
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Yes, indeed. I wonder that, too.
answers2: These questions are what were asked by the American founding
fathers such as John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton,
James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. <br>
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They found their answers in the philosophies of John Locke, John Hume,
Harrington, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Jacques Rousseu, Adam Smith, and
Francois Quesnay. <br>
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Hobbes was a state absolutist. <br>
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Hume was a tory (democracy was an open door to chaos). <br>
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Blackstone was a tory lawyer <br>
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Harrington were republicans of strong aristocratic bias <br>
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Locke were constitutional monarchists <br>
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So just remember the 'Golden Rule of History' - them that has the
gold, makes the rules. Or them that has the guns, makes the rules.
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Might makes right: The victors write history. <br>
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Political power: Politics has sometimes been called the 'art of
compromise'. You are forced to compromise when powerful men do not
want to change. <br>
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American government is a system of checks & balances so powerful men
are held back. <br>
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Any government is legitimate when it is 'recogninzed' by other
powerful governments. <br>
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Why are there governments at all? Because very rich & powerful people
put themselves in charge. <br>
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Realistically speaking, no government exists if there are not powerful
people who make it exist.
answers3: There are governments beacause society must be organized.But
i think that in the near future,every person will be able to vote
through internet,i mean,not to vote other persons but laws and all the
things that must be done in a country. <br>
A govt.is legitimate when it does what was promised in the campaign
before the election
answers4: The answers to these is very extensive. Are you referencing
to Communist, Socialist, Democratic, just to name the big three but
there are a hundred different architectures of governments. but in a
nut shell, my personal insite of government .... We are screwed.
answers5: "What does it mean to say that "might makes right"? " <br>
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- It's essentially saying that the most powerful have a duty to use
that power against the rest of us. <br>
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"Is political power ultimately nothing but the rule of the strongest,
the most powerful, the most persuasive on TV? " <br>
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- Yes because the nation state is nothing if not organized coercion.
All the money it generates is stolen through taxes (behind threats of
violence) and it's borders protected through threats of violence. <br>
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"Is a government anything more than the power of those who run it? " <br>
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- A government is not real. It's a conceptual tag. All the things the
government does is done by specific individuals. The reason it's
powerful is because it represents the psychological trauma of
childhood. The same parts of the brain light up in familial relations
as political ones and next to none is involved with the neo frontal
cortex (the reasoning part of our brain). <br>
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"In your opinion, what makes a government legitimate? " <br>
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- Nothing. It breaks from it's own principles immediately after it
states them. It's posed as a solution to theft, murder, rape and
kidnapping (among other things) and yet inflicts ALL of those as a
solution for them. It's a logical contradiction and wholly evil.
Police kidnap, steal from and murder people everyday and puts those
people it kidnaps in a place where they will likely be raped weekly.
Just because a man wears a uniform does not make him exempt from
simple logic. Soldiers murder, the police steal and it's not justified
ever. <br>
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"Why are there governments at all?" <br>
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- Because our parents exempt themselves from the rules they force us
to abide by.
answers6: Might makes right- means the most powerful makes the rules. <br>
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Political power- There is also an element of back door deals and arm
twisting from the cleverest. Political power is divided so that rule
of the strongest really doesn't happen in the US. <br>
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Yes government is more than power for those who run it, because in
America the gov't is made up of the people. That makes it a force to
create society not just a source of power. <br>
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Gov't is made legitimate by the peoples decree, by force, or by peace
and prosperity. <br>
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Governments will always be around to create structure of rules and
security for all people to live under. This can degenerate into
dictatorship pretty easily though.
answers7: My philosophy is to stay out of sex, religion and politics's <br>
in this category. <}:-})