This is how Donald Trump, Vladimir putin... should view politics

Life is about surviving well – living as you choose without hurting others and doing that which satisfies you. I hesitate to call it happiness – some folks enjoy just being miserable. And to these crotchity old codgers I say « power to you ». It's your life. And this seems to be the point. A life not owned isn't worth living. Perhaps this is what makes politics – at least today's pragmatic version thereof – so frustrating to people like me. The aim of practical politics should be – to a large degree – a sort of inverse utilitarian ideal. Politics exist to make social interaction between men as painless as possible. Thus a proper polity is not based on the greatest good for the greatest number (which seems in many ways to lead naturally to socialism) but rather to create an arena in which the potential for human suffering is at its lowest. 

  

          I have to question the need of any nation – regardless of size – to have a government which sits in session most of the working year. Whenever I hear someone complain that « Those lazy bastards in parliament don't work hard enough, » I can only respond with: If it were only so. » Politics in a non libertarian society is primarily the exercise of force and as such a legislature that operates on a regular basis is generally up to no good. As Mark Twain once said: « No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.