Politics in Amerikkka

Political parties are organized groups of people whose all generally align in political views, ideologies, and goals. The root purpose of political parties is to nominate and see to the election of as many political figures for different levels of candidacy (presidency, Senate, House of Representatives, mayor, etc). This way, they can dominate political control, which will see to a larger execution of their political goals, agendas, and integration of their policies into society. The officials elected by political parties succeed in doing so through legislative and initiative reform. Elected officials are also responsible for representing the concerns commonly established amongst members of the political party they identify with. However, it should be noted that they are meant to attract interest and support of those who do not identify or ideologically align with their political party, through either bipartisan methods (issues that cross party lines) or nonpartisan methods ...

Hello readers! Welcome back to my blog. Today's post is focused on the topic of interest groups, which closely follows up to my previous post regarding political socialization. These two separate concepts connect because political socialization often results in people joining and developing groups known as interest groups. Interest groups are (typically) official organizations composed of people with mutual political, social, or economic ideologies that work to influence the government to adopt particular policies, measure,  and political/legislative decisions.  Their role in the American political system is important, as they identify certain political, social or economic concerns they believe the government should take action in protecting and stapling into the government and society. Interest groups hold immense responsibility in informing political and government figures about issues they feel necessary to be addressed.  To gain support from the public as ...

Hello readers! I'm an 18-year-old senior in high school, and I live in Seattle, Washington. I'm creating this blog for a project we're currently working on in my AP Government class. In preparation for this project, my class took a multiple-choice survey that questioned us on a variety of political topics. Based on our results, we were categorized into a general political group. My results identified my perspective to align what is considered a "solidly liberal". A graph featured on my results page specifically showed where my political ideological leaning general fits on the liberal-conservative political spectrum: I fall within the consistently left-wing, liberal sector, but also have perhaps 1-3 beliefs that aren't considered strictly left-wing and liberal. I wasn't particularly surprised with my results, because I know 95% of my political leanings are aligned with Democratic, liberal perspectives, with an occasional belief that can be considered c...