What I read in Politics Today #3 and the current state of politics-trail

Current state of politics-trail

As You might have noticed, I did not publish a “What I read in politics today” for almost three days. I will keep the intervals a little lose for now, I am still a small trail and don't want to raid too much of the reward pool by doing a daily series + extra. We might also have to think about a way to select articles in the future, if I keep getting that many good recommendations.

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The main thing I actually wanted to do in this small note is thank all the people who support and talk to me. I thought that if I ask the politics community of Steemit for great articles, people would come forward and show their awesome posts to me... That is exactly what happened! I am a little proud that my (evil?) plan came true, but I am even more happy to read of and talk to interesting people like You! We are all wearing different overalls, but our hearts are at the same place.

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Congressional Baseball Shooting, the Public's Response, and Sen. Paul's Tweet

by @crossedsteems

I did dodge this topic until I was asked to read this article. (I can not say “no” to that by my own rules) I felt like a lot of people were using the incident for their own agenda. That is exactly what @crossedsteems talks about: We need to come together as people and not get riled about into a “vs mode”.

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When Everyone Thinks Alike - Who is Thinking?

by @steemtruth

Group thinking. For many people it is normal to just repeat everything what they read in the newspaper or heard on TV. To me this is a bane of modern society, we let other people do the thinking for us, they tell us we are too stupid to form an opinion on our own, but I doubt that we humans are and so does @steemtruth!

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A message to you crazy Political righties...

by @raymondspeaks

This article is much more peaceful and uniting than the title might make it out to be. It is a shame how hostile people from different ideologies and opinions treat each other. With the recent violent incidents that have been discussed in the media I think it is time to think about “why do we hate someone just because he has wants a different political system?" We can be emotional in our debates, but we should still be able to drink and laugh together afterwards.

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Welcome to my home town!!

by @dracosalieri

An interesting story about a town in South Africa that @dracosalieri lives in. I knew South Africa had problems, but I never knew “electricity theft” was one of them. In this short article You will see photographic proof of the act along with other great photos provided by @dracosalieri.

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The Handyman

by @rvanstel

A nice little metaphor on the state of our current state controlled power. Do not be fooled by the colorful overalls (their proclaimed ideology) they all want the same: Your money and Your legitimation to do whatever they want to do with it!

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ROAD TO FREEDOM (SERIES) #2 - THE MYTH OF AUTHORITY

by @cmoljoe

An extensive article about the authority of the state and it's recent History. It is well structures so it is not as hard of a read as it might appear at first glance. Authority is an important topic, it is often perceived as something very negative and it is true our authoritarian systems (school/state/workplace) are very bad realizations of the concept of authority. I think we should not blindly follow anyone or anything, but I think authority is much more complex than that. Maybe I will make a post about the topic soon, it keeps coming up.

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