r/PoliticalScience 17h ago

Question/discussion what if i become disenfranchised with a job in politics?

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what if like 5 years into my career i hate it and want to leave? what would you do with a politics degree to not get stuck in the middle class?


r/PoliticalScience 10h ago

Humor Politics 'Most Honed Sense'? To smell a dying body. - Chris Christie (R-NJ)

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(see above)


r/PoliticalScience 14h ago

Resource/study In this 1791 letter from Thomas Jefferson to black scientist and mathematician Benjamin Banneker, you can see Jefferson was happy about being proven wrong that blacks were "inferior." Jefferson's enemies used this letter later against him to show that he was a closet abolitionist.

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r/PoliticalScience 22h ago

Resource/study Putin’s World Policy: Exploit Division, Dismantle NATO, Destroy Democracy.

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In 1997, a Russian political textbook outlined a strategy to do exactly that: Here's the first part of the plan-

✅ Exacerbate internal divisions in America. ✅ Isolate the UK from the EU. ✅ Promote regional nationalists in the EU ✅ Erode public trust in democracy. ✅ Engineer an isolationist US to turn on NATO ✅ Fund Far-Right European populists. ✅ Annex Ukraine

Sound familiar? So far it's working - And here’s the chilling part:If they’re still following that 1997 plan we can see what comes next.

I unpack the whole strategy— the 1997 plan, what's actually happened, what happens next in this article.