{"product_id":"9781466906303","title":"The Political Primer: Fundamentals of Politics","description":"The Political Primer is humbly offered as a way for you to re-discover, or discover for the first time, your political beliefs. You will soon realize politics is not about what other people think or what other people believe. Politics is about what you think and what you believe. Here are three of the facts that politicians and elected officials do not want you to know: \u003cbr\u003e1. Politics is not complicated.\u003cbr\u003e2. Only four basic political philosophies exist.\u003cbr\u003e3. Politics is entirely about you! \u003cbr\u003eThe Political Primer was written to help you determine what it is you believe. All of the fundamental political concepts introduced in Part One are used to develop the four political philosophies. Part Two uses both trivial and controversial issues to illustrate the application of the political concepts of Part One and to demonstrate that there are four and only four political philosophies. Part Three will illustrate the power of the political concepts presented in part one and will further clarify how politics is utilized to change the structure of society. The Epilog is both a commentary from the Author and a test. The test is not to determine whether you agree or disagree with the Author's comments in the Epilog. The test is to determine for yourself whether you now understand why you agree or disagree with the Author's comments in the Epilog. If you know why you agree or disagree, then The Political Primer will have accomplished its goal and you will have become politically astute.\u003cbr\u003eThe goal of politics is the same as that of war: To place people in control of society who share your Worldview and who will strive to create a structure for society that you want to live in. In Part One of The Political Primer you will be introduced to the PAC Factor (Political Awareness Confusion Factor), PU statements (Political Untruths), the concepts of Worldviews and Reality, two Political Interrogatories, the concept of the political gap, the four political philosophies, and new political terms. In the process you will come to recognize the political philosophy that you embrace, and you will begin to realize that your political philosophy has impacted you almost your entire life. \u003cbr\u003eIllustrating the applications of the political principles presented is done methodically in Part Two. By the time you finish Part Two you will have confirmed for yourself that politics is not complicated and that the four political philosophies identified in Part One are real and have meaning. You will be convinced that the Worldview you have chosen to embrace is indeed the right Worldview - or you will have determined that you do not want to live in the society that the Worldview you currently hold will create. If that is the case, then by the time you finish Part two you will have chosen to embrace a different Worldview. \u003cbr\u003eThe power of the political concepts presented in The Political Primer is revealed in the essays in Part Three. In these essays the interrelationships of the concepts stressed and clarified, so that by the time you reach the Epilog you will have fully developed an appreciation for, and will have embraced your Worldview. If you hold a Worldview different from that embraced by the author, you will believe the ideas and structure proposed for society as elaborated in the Epilog are wrong. If you hold the same Worldview as the author, you will agree with the author's comments in the Epilog and will believe every concept presented concerning the structure of society is what should be. There will be no middle ground. But whether you agree or disagree is not what is important. What is important, if The Political Primer achieved its intended goal, is that you will know why you believe the ideas in the Epilog are right or wrong. And, because you will understand the foundation upon which you base your beliefs, you will know what must change to create a world consistent with your Worldview of how society should be. If you know why you agree or disagree, and if you know exactly the Direction and Approach you want society to go in, and those concepts have specific meanings, you will have indeed become politically wise! \u003cbr\u003eThe Political Primer was written to change the way society utilizes politics. But change in society - meaningful political change - will only happen one individual at a time. You need to grasp a clear understanding of what it is that you believe and why you believe it. Your beliefs create your vision of the society that you want to live in. Two concepts that you have already grappled with as you developed into an adult are essential for your survival. Those same two concepts form the foundation of the four, and only four, political Worldviews. Since you have already pondered these concepts you have already chosen one of the four Worldviews as your political Worldview. As you proceed through this Political Primer you will discover why you embraced your Worldview and why you rejected the other three Worldviews.\u003cbr\u003eOnce you have grasped the significance of the four Worldviews and recognize how those worldview political beliefs create the structure of the society you live in, everything in the political arena will begin to come into sharp focus. Before you finish The Political Primer you may, perhaps for the first time, begin to see how all the pieces of the political picture fit together. If this is the first time everything begins to make sense, 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 . The right kind of 'political change' begins when you determine what kind of society you want to live in, and you then begin to utilize your Worldview to engineer solutions that will create that society. You won't know whether anyone truly shares your Worldview until you take two steps: First, you have to ask yourself the two Political Interrogatories and give yourself an answer. Then, you need to ask other people the two Political Interrogatories. If they answer both interrogatories the same as you, they are pursuing your Worldview. Except under circumstances described in The Political Primer, you will agree on everything. If they answer either or both interrogatories differently, they are pursuing a different Worldview and you will probably not agree on solutions for anything. This step, determining the Worldview of the people you intend to support is important because your Worldview will never be the blueprint for the structure of a society you want to live in until the people in control of society, and the people responsible for creating solutions for society, share your Worldview! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you get involved in politics for the right reason, which is that it is your civil duty as a citizen of a free society to be involved, politics will have only one goal for you - to make society work the way you believe society should work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead The Political Primer. 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