PS101 UIA Lecture 2

Okay. All righty. Anybody else? All right. Let us proceed. So, this is a class in political science. Uh we were saying why you should study politics. Hey, uh it can kill you or at a minimum it's going to impact your quality of life. Uh so, let's talk about what politics is, get into the roots of what

we're doing.

Um, you want to understand a word, take it from its root. Uh, what language does the word politics come from? Greek. That's it. It's all Greek to me, as they say. And you take its root, you're to the poly, the many. You slap an s on that and you've got the polus. The polus in

Latin becomes the community, the the commune, bringing the one into the many. And that's what politics is. It's a process. Politics is the process of turning the poly into the polus. This is an important concept. Bringing people together. It's so important that in the Latin we put it on our coins. E- pluribus unum. What does e pluribus unum

mean? Anyone? From many one. That's it. The whole goal of politics is to take the many individuals and turn them into one. The community politics is that it's the family sitting around the table. It's the individuals become parting a part of something better than themselves. Politics done correctly is ohana. Uh and you all

recall what ohana is. What's Ohana? Family. That's family. And remember what little Lilo or little Stitch found out in Lilo and Stitch that family means no one is left behind or forgotten. I tear up every time I see that. Oh uh the first three words of our constitution basically translates as ohana. What are