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The sub isn't for literal 5 year olds

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Okay.

Politics is trying to convince the people who make the rules to make rules you like, not to make rules you don't like, or to try to reach some sort of compromise.

You can do that by either trying to influence the actual people who make the rules, or the people they listen to.

Politics is essentially the study of disagreements, and ways to settle them. This usually refers to the governments of nations when unspecified, but it more broadly applies to everything from company management to organized crime to school boards to homeowners associations. Anywhere two or more people disagree on how something is done and how things should be run, and it becomes a struggle over the power to decide, it's politics.

Well my country is kinda screwed then. Our general population is not the best at making decisions. Brexit and the Conservative party to name a few of them

I like how broad your definition is. Thank you very much.

He's 5. He's not that good with numbers yet. He forgets how old he is.

That's because of politics. And misinformation.

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