POL 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alberta Separatism, Distinct Society, Agnosticism
19 Apr 2019
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Us: ideas in the dominant culture aren"t just the popular opinion, but the one and only truth if you don"t agree you"re not just misguided or wrong, but evil, have no soul, blah blah blah. Complexity of resolving issues competing ideas, unintended consequences. Start with factual basis, different interpretation different weight put on different aspects of an issue. Pol 222 politics, pol 221 organization of government. It"s easy to be cynical, but most political activists believe in something want to change society for what they think is the better. Biggest weakness of large democracies, you can only have a few political parties while functioning effectively five, at most, in canada are not a wide range of views. There shouldn"t be a party that reflects exactly what you want, it"s all about compromise and these parties are made up of people who got together and got active.
