Politics-trail Introduction

Who am I?

Hi! It's the new politics-trail. My mission on Steemit is to support political conversations and posts, and to make #politics great again! Especially with the hardening of political fronts, I want to share my identity, so you guys can see my bias. Hiding your bias or even claiming you have none is counterproductive in a political discourse in my opinion. I am @thatgermandude. I am a socialist, but there are many ideas in nationalism and libertarianism that I agree with. The only ideology I strongly oppose is “I say whatever my TV-Stations told me - without second thought”.

My policies

I will have a Zero tolerance for swearwords. Even if they sometimes seem to fit so perfectly, I urge you strongly to avoid them. Profanities are never necessary for an argument. This might seem harsh, but I don't want to draw any blurry lines. To be clear: This will lead to me not upvoting. It will not lead to me flagging your posts. I might even comment and tell you “hey if you could get rid of some of the strong language, I would upvote”.

It is rough to define politics. For me politics is a discussion about values and goals, this can be done on many different topics. But in general I will prefer to promote the traditional political discussions about recent events, speeches, actions of countries and ideology, but don't be surprised if your discussion about “hierarchies in the world of cooking” gets promoted by me .

I love arguing. A good discussion culture is invaluable to me. Please never be afraid to be part of a discussion. There are stupid questions, but stupid does not mean bad! Excluding people because they are not from a well educated background is one of the banes in todays politic debates to me. Personally I even prefer when people can bring their point across in simple language instead of hiding behind big words.

Thanks to @kralizec we have a politics ad, check it out and use it if you want to.

Let us discuss how we will change the world in #politics !