POLITICS

American Politics

American politics is based upon freedom of choice for the voter, the candidate and even the political parties themselves. Although the names may remain the same anyone can change the direction of all involved but that requires the powers of pursuasion and,  perhaps more importanly, of the purse. 

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The power of influence from outside agitators or the influx of enormous amounts of money can facilitate these changes beyond what the voters might have originally intended to support. As a counter this,  extensive regulations were instituted to protect the process from undue influence. 

For instance: The town, state and the federal governments propose and vote on their own processes of forming and changing governments. There are restrictions on how much money can be donated, who actually can run for office and for how long. Even the voting process varies across the country. There virtually is no sector of govenment that can exist without some other sector looking over its shoulder to balance and check that power.  

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A problem arises when either of the three branches of govenment, for whatever reason,  allows ideology to thwart policy. The American news outlets (also known as the "Fourth branch of government or the Fourth Estate)  are not immune from allowing individual or corporate idiologies from affecting the politics of the day. Any and all branches can become corrupt when oversight is limited. 

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All countries are subject to corruption but America is uniquely built upon a constitution, that, since its formal adoption on June 21,  1788, has done a miraculous job at keeping those forces at bay. 

But as John Adams wrote in 1798 "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." He meant that without honor and faith in a higher power our constitution would succumb to dangerous threats just like any other.  The duty to protect it from those threats, whatever and wherever they may, be rests upon all our shoulders. 

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