At a 30,000 foot view the purpose of politics is to keep corrupt people and stupid people away from the levers of power. Voting is one possible way, fiat is another.

Readers can assess for themselves the degree to which the U.S. government has done this, as well as the CCP.

By the way Sortition, which is picking random people to run government for a period of time, would probably be better than what we have now in my opinion. We are worse than random.

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asdfman123 10 hours ago | parent [-]

What you want out of politics is not the purpose of politics. Politics is an emergent phenomenon that appears naturally within groups of people.

People/groups engage in politics to exert control over the social environment.

	▲	janalsncm 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not about what I want. The view I shared above was shared the Founding Fathers of the US, and the writers of its constitution. For example Federalist 57, 68, and 76. So I’m not talking about “politics” as an emergent social phenomenon I am talking about the deliberate process of setting up a government.