Why does politics turns to violence?

Violence is everywhere around us and it is sad that it seems that it is becoming a norm. For me violence is done because of unresolvable conflicts. In one of my class it is mentioned that violence is caused by deprivation and collective frustration of people. It is a mean to solve problems that cannot be addressed anymore by peaceful means. Violence is hurting other people, it is inflicting pain to others.

One venue that violence can be seen is in politics. Why does politics turns to violence? What is violence in politics?

Most of us can see violence is politics through wars, especially hot wars like World War I and the likes. Although, those are not the only violent acts in politics. There are many more for politics is almost in every aspects of our own lives.

Politics can do violence when politicians abuses their powers, not only politicians but every powerful person. When they use their power to hurt or oppress other people it is violence done by politics. In the local scene the most controversial issue, one that we are always being criticized about, is the extrajudicial killings in our country. It is not war but it is, clearly, violence done because of politics.

There are many issues like extrajudicial killings that are being done that concerns politics. But then again we are more aware of violence when it is depicted by war. In the United States to wage war the Congress must approve of it. Then it is clear that political leaders are the reason why wars are declared. War is violent. There are many killed army men and sometimes the collateral damages are high. Collateral damages are the innocent civilians that were affected by war.

Politics turns to violence for their own gain, take for example the War on Terror. The United States justify the violence by saying that it is for protection against terrorism. They say that they turned to war to stop nuclear weapons and to stop terrorism. Honestly, where and what are their up to now? It seems that the reasons are not enough to continue anymore.

Politics turns to violence because they think it is their last solution for a situation. War is justified when all peaceful means are exhausted. Although, can war ever be excused? I do not think so especially nowadays. It is because I think humans have already forgotten how to be rational and how to care for each other.

These days, politics turns to violence because they think it is the fastest course to achieve their goals and that is just so wrong.