No no, it's faaar more personal than that. Politics, like many other things, are they way they are only to keep your mind off the real issues at hand. What I mean by catalyst is that this entire society has been set up to keep you completely occupied from the moment you wake to the moment you fall asleep. People have the ability to chose to continue operating within the framework they've set up, or transcend it to another place later in life. They throw out negative ideas, support racism, sexism,greed, etc., to see who will bite and stay within the framework. You being occupied by these trivial matters GIVES THEM POWER, and halts your progression. If you can realize the sham for what it really is, and devote your life to helping others at least "realize" the reality they actually live in, their ability to control you is taken away, and YOU become the master of your destiny, they way it should be.