Political Review (Template)

Greetings everyone,

This is a template post for new bloggers interested in Palisade's political review section. For this section, since it is blog-style and not article/journalism format, it's fairly free game since for what you want to post if you're doing a news piece, an opinion piece, a reactionary essay, a satire/parody, or whatever else.
However, considering the nature of anything political, it's super important that we keep these blogs as non-bias as possible and that both points of view are explained. I understand that it's near-impossible to not have bias at all, but at being able to demonstrate in a clear-cut way that you don't mean to undermine anyone else's political beliefs favors everybody.
Political blogs you post do not have to be what's going on in your country but around the globe since Project Palisade is a project focused on all sorts of issues spanning the world's cultures. We're an intercultural project so why not have intercultural blogs.
Make sure you do at least a bit of research and fact-checking rather than just straight up rants. It avoids arguments this way.
You don't have to post sources or links in your blogs, but damn, it'll make you look smarter if you do.
I won't be strict with these but if I see some bullshit I'll delete it.


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Angela Merkel - Mother or Monster? - 2/19/19

Perhaps the face of 21st Century European leaders, Angela Merkel faced the problems of the EU headfirst since stepping into office in 2005, shifting between managing both the rebuilding nation of Germany and the European Union. Leading the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she formed an alliance with Germany's other political parties to achieve success and wheel Germany back into power after it's time of desperation when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 as the satellite state of West Germany reintegrated with East Germany. Capitalism and Democracy are adopted as the new philosophy and Germany has kept face with all the major world powers since Merkel's led the campaign.
So why am I mentioning all of this?
Because the world is in a state of crisis at the moment and the most humanitarian level. Which is more important: security or charity? Would you sacrifice your country's safety for the sake of saving thousands of people or do you safeguard your country and possibly condemn a thousand people?
Because of the Arab Spring and the puppet states surrounding the Middle East and African nations, the Arab League and African Union have seen a displacement of millions of Muslims fleeing the onslaught of terrorism, plague, famine, and war. Between Zarqawi, Bin Laden, or Boko Haram, the world has been on edge against the Arab race for a multitude of reasons that stem straight from the prospect of terrorism. The 9/11 attacks, the Paris attacks, the Istanbul attacks, everything from an Ariana Grande concert to a night club in Orlando has been affected by terrorism.
It's not like this is the first time the world's faced this. From the rise of Nazism to the terror of colonization to the crusades and to the Hebrew Exodus, struggle and poverty led to violence and devastation. It's not a coincidence the center of Nazism was the idea of mein kampf and the center of terrorism was the idea of jihad, both are words meaning struggle.
Anyway, because of this world crisis, refugees are fleeing at a rapid pace, most of them to Europe where they stayed in Greece, Italy, and Spain, low-market but safe and secure areas. Then things began to change when those refugees began to move into France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to seek welfare.
Long story short, Angela Merkel promised to tackled the immigration crisis on her own bringing nearly 140,000 immigrants to her country and promising them refuge. It hasn't gone well, by any stretch of the imagination. Shootings and rape numbers in the slums of Germany have risen dramatically, Muslims are calling for Sharia Law in a Christian nation, the Germany economy is losing millions of Euros housing these Muslims and giving them welfare. And her policy spanned to the rest of the EU as well giving them the same issue.
This is the same Angela Merkel who tackled Germany's debt, saved the EU from taking the fall from Greece's bankruptcy, the motherly figure who took photos with the daughters of Germany in the streets and was a formidable public speaker beloved by citizens worldwide, not just in Europe or Germany, but the immigration crisis completely tainted her image and forced her resignation. All things considered, is Angela Merkel the mother or monster of Europe?

Sources:
Vox
Biography
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Basically something like that, open-ended, to the point, with or without sources, and being mature and unbias on an issue. With that being said, the floor is yours!

- Donovan Levine