Theoretical Perspectives: Evaluating Our Political System

Of the three theoretical perspectives, evaluating our political system, in my opinion, would be done from the conflict perspective, that in society today we are in a struggle. Struggling for power, struggling for money and wealth, struggling for order, all in a world full of conflict.
Once, what seems so long ago, now seems almost unreachable - a society who knew how to function, how to grow together and how to overcome opposing views or opinions of monumental importance without all the hatred and backstabbing. Had that time still been evident today, I would have chosen functionalism.
I wanted to evaluate using symbolic interactionism, hoping I could justify picking at such a broad spectrum by using only micro analysis, and although there