Politics Is Always Based on Lies, And That Should Tell You Something

It needs to be said that politics are always based on lies, and, therefore, the expression of moral principle, not Christian but simply human, ought to mean a reduction of politics and their fictitious power over human life to a very minimum. 

Politics is always an expression of the slavery of man. The astonishing thing is that politics has never been an expression even of intelligence, to say nothing of nobility or goodness. 
                                                                                                               
                                                                                -- Nikolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom

If Brexit, the failed Trump presidency, and the ongoing faux-populist, illiberal democracy of Viktor Orbán have revealed anything, it is this — there is no hope in politics. None at all.

​So why the obsession?

Moreover, politics contains no intelligence, nobility, or goodness either. On the contrary, politics is now a spiritual deathtrap, and anyone who remains fixated on, preoccupied with, and possessed by politics is a slave.

Full stop.

We are far past the point where one can obsess over politics and sincerely claim to be committed to the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Far past the point...