Political Strategy

Political strategy is a political concept that concerns both the ruling party and the opposition;

1. How is power obtained?
2. How is power retained?
3. How is the country governed?
4. How are the country's resources utilised?

It seeks answers to these questions.

Obtaining and retaining power should be desired in order to serve the people better. The main purpose of politics should not be to obtain personal and group interests, hold power, obtain unjust gains and create illegal structures; it should be to serve the public, grow the state, establish justice that will ensure the public's trust in the state and increase the level of prosperity. The terms of office of administrations that have adopted serving the public as their main principle will certainly be long.
 
The biggest problem facing today's democracies is the increasing prevalence of a political climate that is shifting from democracy to authoritarianism, and the fact that this momentum is hindering the development of a culture of democracy.
 
We can classify the main strategies of politics today as:

1. Perception management,
2. Othering,
3. Demonising opponents, and
4. Consolidating supporters.

These strategies were previously employed by repressive and authoritarian regimes seeking to consolidate power by deceiving their people, with the most obvious example being Hitler's Germany. Today, however, these strategies are also being intensively applied in countries that claim to be the cradle of democracy. This situation is causing democracies to drift towards authoritarianism and leading to a decline in democratic standards. The political preferences of the people are manipulated using the above political strategies. Those who come to power with the support of the people have no qualms whatsoever about managing public perceptions, dividing people, turning those with different views against each other, and creating enemies both internally and externally in order to remain in power.

The only way to reduce this political momentum, which harms the development of democratic culture, is for the public to take a greater interest in politics, refuse to allow their perceptions to be manipulated, and give priority not to politicians who seek to divide, antagonise and polarise them, but to those who will serve them.
 
Populations that fail to achieve this will inevitably lose their intrinsic values, face economic hardship, become impoverished, regress in the league of democracy, and ultimately disappear.
Regression in the league of democracy will eventually result in relegation from that league, and returning to it will be far more difficult than remaining there.