Politics: Opportunity or Annoyance?

On Bryan Caplan, Machiavelli, and Arendt

I enjoyed this ode to hating politics by Bryan Caplan. My favorite line was:

I’d loathe politics even if my policy views matched Clinton’s or Trump’s word-for-word.  Indeed, I’d loathe politics even if I thought prevailing policies were the pinnacle of wisdom.  Why?  Because I hate the way people think about politics, independent of the ultimate outcome.