GOPO Blog

As I explore political structures in our government another important thing to address would be parties and the role they play. Simply put, a political party is a group of like-minded voters that aim to support and eventually elect a candidate who will support their chosen policies. These policies can range from taxation to current foreign action. Our government is described as having a two-party system meaning that two major parties control the government. Obviously, there are other parties present and pushing their own candidates but none have the power or voter mass that both the Republican and Democrat parties have in our country. Like any system a two-party style has pros and cons, however, one advantage of having these parties is it allows the common voter to easily identify a possible candidate's agenda or stance. Our current president Donald Trump, a candidate of the Republican party, recently signed in a massive tax overhaul that substantially change...

An interest group, or political advocacy group, is a group of people who try to influence legislation and public policy based on a common interest. They do this by raising public awareness on issues, lobbying for preferred legislation, giving monetary support to candidates and advertising on public and social media. One interest group I thought was interesting and had seen around before is Green Peace( https://www.greenpeace.org ). They are a well known environmentally friendly interest group that pushes "green" policies and works hard to maintain the natural world. Heres a screenshot from their website that contains their mission, goals, and call to action: In the first segment alone it is easy to that this interest group heavily supports environmentally friendly initiatives and is heavily opposed to the exploitation of the earth and its people. Based on this and the next two paragraphs surrounding the current president it can be assumed that this group is de...