Politics are an insanely powerful thing. There is the obvious power of politics. They are the vehicles that rules and regulations and rights are delivered and put into action. Politics can free or imprison a people or a country. People in politics have power as they are the people that propose these rules, regulations, policies and rights and then make the decisions that put them into action or that stall them or keep them from seeing the light of day. These are all evident ways that politics have power. The ways that shape the face of the world.
However, there are more subtle powers of politics. The powers that show themselves in living rooms while people sit around and discuss them. Politics evoke strong emotions from people. Emotions that make them act out in unexpected ways. Ways that tend to have domino effects by touching all the people that are around them. Politics make people do horrible and wonderful things. They bring out the best and worst in humanity. They have saved lives and taken lives. The amount of power that politics have can range from a lot to a little. Some things only have an effect on a small amount of people. Maybe it is just a group of people that are sitting around and talking about politics and one person get offended. Politics also have the power to affect a whole country of people by the changes brought by a policy change. The limit and range of politics are infinite and unique. They can affect a unknown number of people in unknown numbers of ways.
