First Things First:

   There are many different blogs, websites, and news networks and other media outlets providing citizens with daily feeds about political issues. While some of these sources tend to be overly biased, they mostly tend to lack concrete and deep content that appeals to what is defined as a “model citizen”. Many scholars have sounded their concern over shallowness and lack of integrity in the news presented by these networks. Alongside with the former, the game of politics has been depicted as a rather negative and dirty series of affairs between parties and individuals. These pictures involve in a series of tactics, utilized by these networks, designed to increase ratings and provide their audience with entertaining, sensational and adrenalin pinching news. Because this ongoing accumulation of negative images from politics and political system, in my opinion, many citizens refrain from committing to political activity that is the undisputed back-bone of a functioning democracy.

    In case that one manages to overcome the burden of this negative images, as citizens of a democratic country, we have different forms of political participation at our disposal: Voting; contacting our elected officials; joining interest groups; peaceful protesting and etc. The question is how one as a citizen of a functioning democracy could analyze the political outcome and produce appropriate feedback by choosing the right form of reaction toward the political system?    By being able to read the fine prints of policies, political statements and actions of our elected officials, as well being more deeply and practically pursuant of practicality we will be able to become more efficiently involved in holding our elected officials responsible and accountable for the job they have been assigned.    This blog is intended to be rather a citizens' handbook providing readers with tools to assess policy proposals by their elected officials giving the readers the fulfilling sense of empowerment and positivity. The focus of this page shall not become attacking, humiliating or demonizing politicians, rather giving the readers the chance to assess public policy and politics by themselves and without the injection of over biased content.