Political Theory

A right wing extremist group who are ate up with dumb a$$ thoughts and gullible to anything anti Obama. These people are complete idiots.

Adolph Hitler

Since a treaty is a contract between nations, it should be honored as such; if one nation fulfills the terms of the treaty, then the other nation (or nations as the case may be - some treaties involve multiple signatories) should do the same. If nations do not honor their contracts, this sets a poor example for their citizens and their own personal contracts.

This does not rule out the possibility that some treaty is horribly misguided and should never have been ratified. In such a case, a new negotiation would be in order. But in general, treaties should be honored.

The term "human energy" usually applies to esoteric thought on spirituality and phenomena. Focus is placed on manipulating experiences in the body in the belief that conscious focus on the body's state will draw natural and vital energy that will produce physical and spiritual benefit.

"Centralized government" can have several somewhat distinct meanings in varying contexts. In general, the term refers to the government of a unitary state; that is, one that is a not a federation, such as those of Canada or the United States, which are nations that have dually-sovereign federal and subnational governments. Two examples are that of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or of the Republic of Ireland, both of which are unitary states with thereby centralized governments.

peaceful and full of life.

Direct democracies do not exist in the modern world. A direct democracy requires the citizens to meet regularly to determine laws and make decisions. This might be ok in a tiny state where it was feasible for the citizens to assemble regularly, but would not work in today's world, so we have representative democracy where elected members of a parliament do it for the constituents who elect them.

The first direct democracy Athens was a city-state, and it was feasible for the citizens to assemble each fortnight to make laws and make other decisions in assembly. Hoeever it didn't work - the people were led astray by cunning orators, and their good decisions were outweighed by their rash and bad decisions. We have learnt from this, and accept that the parliamentary system is more likely to provide mature and workable governance in a complex and larger world of countries, not small city-states.

The political spectrum that the founding fathers followed is not what we follow today. Today, we find that Communism is placed to the Far Left, and Fascism is placed to the Far Right. The media, the elites, the intellectuals and the parties have said that we, the people, are center to center-right, according to polling from various institutions.

The political spectrum that our founding fathers followed was one that showed 100% government to the Far Left and 0% Government to the Far Right.

By the founders political spectrum, communism, socialism & fascism would be considered 100% government, where as anarchy ( no government ) would be considered 0% government. In my opinion, they would consider the current form of the political spectrum to be pointless and useless because it shows no place for anarchy.

The founders placed our constitution, the written document that outlines the structure and limits of government, at the center of their political spectrum. They represented our form of government, on that spectrum, as a 3-headed eagle. The 3 heads represent the 3 branches of government, the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches; each of these heads join into 1 neck, representing the inability of each branch to act without the consent of the others. This eagle also has it's wings spread out; the right wing representing the cognitive wing, the problem solving wing; the left wing represents the conservation wing, the wing that is meant to conserve resources. They pictured government like this and the spectrum like this because when government becomes too fixated on problems ( the cognitive wing becomes too strong), and there is no concern for resources (conservation wing not doing it's job), the society will drift into tyranny. However, if the cognitive wing is not doing it's job and the conservation wing is being too tight with resources, society will drift into anarchy.

Democracy is a political idea of how people should conduct their government. The Greeks were the first society to practice a form of democracy.

The president can veto a bill, which prevents it from passing. The judicial system can exercise a power known as judicial review to determine if a law is constitutional.

A form of government in which all laws are created by the vote of a representative body. This representative body is elected by people or is elected by another representative body which is in turn elected by the people.

The members of constituent assembly are elected by the members of the provincial assemblies

If you were to look at the Arab World in the 1960s, you had a high degree of secularism. Most Egyptian women were uncovered, you had literary works that were critical of Islamic practices, you had countenanced discussions of minority rights, etc. You could actually believe that Conservatism was going to disappear. However, a vast number of changes occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, which led ultimately in a rise of Conservatism and increasing belligerence and fundamentalism. The change in the 1970s happened over the entire decade, such that the Islamic World of 1965 and the Islamic World of 1985 were quite different and the latter was much more conservative. Some particularly poignant events in my view were:

1) Saudi Investment -- Saudi Arabia helped to build mosques across the Islamic World and places in the West, helping to further disseminate a more fundamentalist understanding of Islam. By the 1970s, the Saudis had raised (internationally) the first crop of children who were, on average, more conservative than their parents.

2) Israel 1967-1973 - The Secular Arab States demonstrated that they could not remove Israel, which led many citizens to lose faith in the viability of these states to represent their will. When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel in 1979, this really infuriated the Egyptian population (and that of the Arab World in general). When Islamists assassinated him in 1980, it helped gain them popular legitimacy.

3) Turkey 1969 - The creation of the Millî Görüş movement which sought to move Turkey away from Secularism and towards Islamism, eventually lead by Erbakan in the 1990s.

4) Iraq 1975 - While Saddam did not officially come to power until 1979, he was the primary actor in Iraqi politics as President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was ill for much of his presidency. While the Ba'ath party was historically non-religious, Saddam was more religious than his predecessors and helped to stoke sectarian tensions, especially against groups that he considered to be Non-Muslims (such as the Kurds or Marsh Arabs, even though many of them were Muslims) using Islamic rhetoric. (This is why the Kurdish genocide in the early 1980s is called the Anfal Campaign, after the 8th Sura of the Qur'an which talks about taking the booty of Non-Muslims.)

5) Lebanon 1975 - The Lebanese Civil War strengthened the sectarian feelings of the various parties in Lebanon, which were divided along religious lines. As identities shifted from being common Lebanese citizens to Maronites, Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, Alawites, Melkites, or Orthodox Christians and the clerical leaders gained power in turn.

6) Pakistan 1978 - Zia ul-Haq, who had a strongly Islamizing political leadership became the President of Pakistan. It was under him that equal rights for women in Pakistan was rescinded in order to allow for the "Islamic" laws of Zinaa and Hudud. Blasphemy Laws were promulgated and Imams were given more power and more license to act on local levels.

7) Iran 1979 - The capture by Islamists of the Iranian Revolution (even though that revolution was actually caused by Communists and Feminists more than the Islamists). This capture set the tone for a new Islamist state and a modern Islamist State.

8) Afghanistan 1979 - When the Soviet Union co-opted the Afghanistan government, the only strong Afghan resistance were the religious Mujaheddin who came to embody the strength of the Afghan people in resisting the Communists. Investments by the US in these Mujaheddin allowed them to grow further and become dominant in regional politics.

james madison

communism seems to be more concerned with the welfare of the people.

fascism=considers deferences in class

communism=equal class

reforming goverment and expanding democracy

Democracy.

Not really, if the population does not vote or pay attention to the government.

Community development is a term describing the basis of positive development of a community. This term can be considered a verb or a noun depending on how it is used. The term is usually used to describe a form of active involvement, through persons in positions of power within the community. These people make plans and actively participate in seeing through efforts to make a positive developmental change within different areas in said community.

One cause might be a mental condition called megalomania, or in the case of Idi Amin- insanity caused by syphilis. Another reason might be greed- they have stolen so much and have shifted much of it out of the country, and don't want their crimes exposed and their wealth taken away. Mubarak is an obvious example, and could never have stayed power for thirty years without the support of western powers, either.

Capitalistic democracy, anarchy (?).

According to http://www.america.gov/st/usg-english/2008/January/20071128090847abretnuh0.9317591.html, the requirements are US citizenship for at least 9 years, 30 years of age, and a resident of the state he/she is being elected from. I believe that the dual citizenship does not change anything.

NO, but there are definitely aspects of irridentist nationalism in the current Hungarian government. Hungary is an illiberal democracy that has some degree of voting and some restrictions on its freedom of speech, but its closest link to fascism is its irridentism and nationalism. Regardless, there is no totalitarian apparatus in the Hungarian government as it currently exists and corporatism is not currently a Hungarian economic policy (which is more-or-less controlled by the European Union).

Definition of Fascism:
Fascism is a variant of extreme corporatist nationalism headed by an authoritarian leadership and is usually classified as a far-right political theory. It originated in Italy under Mussolini and Hitler's Nazism is a variant of Fascism. Fascist movements shared certain common features, including the veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultra-nationalism and militarism. Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism positively and it asserts that stronger nations have the right to expand their territory by displacing weaker nations since the national race was in perpetual conflict with other nations and races. It also argues that corporations should be able to maintain independence from direct government control (in contrast to communism), but that these privately-owned and run corporations should work in tandem with government interests.