The Political Primer
Fundamentals of Politics
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You try to make sense of it all, but who is right? A thunderous roar of political emotions and convictions seems to be hemorrhaging from society. You are stymied. How do you sort through all the facts? How do you make sense of it all? Then, all of a sudden, you hear a comment and instantly you agree. “Yes. That’s the way it should be!” Finally! A glimmer of what you believe about how society should work. As you try to build on the revelation, the vision disappears. Was it real or was it a mirage? All that remains are questions. Why did you agree? Why did you disagree? What is the foundation upon which you were building your political opinion? Deep down in your gut you know there must be some concepts that form the foundation of political beliefs. But what are they?
If politics is to change in a meaningful way, voters need to learn the fundamental political concepts and how they interrelate. ... .
You can participate in politics as a voter or as a candidate without ever knowing what the fundamental political concepts are. But, if you are unaware of what the fundamental political concepts are, will you ever really understand politics?
There are six concepts that define politics. ... “Expectation” and “Responsibility”, “Reality” and “Worldviews”, and “Good” and “Evil”. While you may have just shuddered to think that you are going to be subjected to a long winded, dry, mind-numbing discourse about concepts you could care less about --- relax. You have already given these concepts much thought and you deal with them every day. ...
Your experience has taught you that before and during every interaction with other people you must establish an Expectation concerning the outcome of the interaction and you need to determine who is going to be Responsible during the interaction to make any necessary decisions. In some situations your very survival may depend ... .
Here is how you use the concepts of Reality and Worldview. You use your Reality concerning how the world does work as your guide to make decisions concerning what is practical and what is not practical. You use your Worldview concerning how the world should work to determine the rightness or wrongness of every solution to every personal and societal problem - regardless of whether the solution is practical or not. ... .
The objective in politics is to gain control over the structure of society in order to preserve it or to change it. War has the same objective - to gain control over the structure of society in order to preserve the current structure or to change it. Politics? War? The objective is the same. ...
The reason the candidates do not talk about their solutions and do not give details of the solutions they intend to implement is that they do not want to take the chance that you will say to yourself “That should not be. That is not right.” If a candidate manipulated you into abandoning your Worldview and you begin to reflect on what should be, you will begin to pursue your Worldview again. If that happens there is a high probability that you will stop supporting that political candidate who manipulated you. That is why the candidate’s goal is to keep you emotional. ... .
The answers to the Political Interrogatories create unique combinations of Direction and Approach, and those combinations result in the four distinct Worldviews. ... .
Your combination of answers to the Political Interrogatories identifies the Direction and Approach you desire society to pursue. ... .
Your Worldview is not something you should ever compromise. When you compromise your Worldview you are assisting in the creation of a structure for society that will cause society to become a society that you do not want to live in! ... .
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About the Book
The kind of society you want to live in depends upon what you politically believe. Discover your political beliefs and learn the ‘why’ in politics.
The Political Primer is humbly offered as a way for you to re-discover, or discover for the first time, your political beliefs. This book is about you.
It is important to first establish what this book is not. It is not a book with nebulous concepts. It does not deal with mathematics and equations. It contains no incomprehensible theories about society. It will not inundate you with references to lot of other places where you need to look up what other people said.
This book discusses the PAC Factor (Political Awareness Confusion Factor), PU statements (Political Untruths), the concepts of Reality and Worldviews, four political parties and the Worldview each embraces, the two Political Interrogatories, the concept of the political gap, four new political terms, exactly what is meant by Direction and Approach in politics, the structure of society, and the impact on society caused by the implementation of right and wrong solutions.
The only thing you should be impressed with when you finish reading The Political Primer is how easy it is to understand what politics is all about.
You will understand what must happen if you are to be motivated to get involved in politics; you will know why politicians try to keep you angry and upset during the election process; you will know the fundamental differences between the political parties and each party’s final goal for society’s structure. You will know why politics is not about issues, or the politicians, or what they think, or what they want. You will know why politics is about you.
By the time you reach the Epilog you will have fully embraced your Worldview. As a result, you will either agree or disagree with the author’s final comments. There will be no middle ground. If The Political Primer achieves its intended goal, it will not be the fact that you agree or disagree that will be important. It will be the fact that you will know why.
As you begin to see how all the pieces of the political picture fit together, and if everything begins to make sense for the first time, the sensation you will experience will be similar to the experience of seeing the three dimensional images in Magic Eye® pictures for the first time.
Read The Political Primer. Find out what it is you truly believe.
About the Author
The author, Mark E. Glogowski, Ph.D. earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Rochester, a Master of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Living in upstate New York with his wife, Kathleen, he enjoys the company of two daughters, a son-in law, and an energetic grandchild. After 47 years of research experience, and having held leadership positions in several organizations, clubs, and committees, including serving as Town Leader for a political party, he considers himself to be a typical retired professional American. Shortly after retiring, he ran in a primary for a town office against another candidate and came face to face with a problem that every candidate has to confront: The voting public’s apathy and lack of knowledge and understanding of politics. He lost. This motivated the author to use a research approach to study the problem of voter apathy. His goal was to find a way to get an individual to quickly determine for themself what they politically believe, then to compare their beliefs to the political party philosophies, and then to evaluate the candidates running for office. Dr Glogowski believes that with the proper tools it is possible for the voter to confidently choose a candidate that will represent the voter’s views on every issue. He found a set of tools and tested them. Having presented the tools to numerous adult education classes, the positive responses motivated him to write this Political Primer. The author believes that, by the time you finish reading The Political Primer, you will have an unambiguous understanding of politics, and its purpose will be clear. You will never view politics the same again.