Politics ruins everything it gets mixed in with. I've said it many, many times before, but I don't think it has really sunk in.
Medicine + politics is no longer medicine, but is only politics. Same with science. This is how you get mandates and power-hungry people declaring themselves to be "The Science". It becomes the opposite of what it claims.
Education mixed with politics becomes gov-school, which is anti-education.
Economics + politics becomes Keynesian "economics"; fake economics. This is how you destroy an economy.
Religion with a little added politics becomes theocracy. If you want to completely discredit your religion, this is a quick way to do so.
If you add politics to a region (or to governance) you get a State, which is going to be spending most of its time and energy violating natural human liberty. This results in destroying property lines by mixing in politics so that they are replaced by "borders".
And libertarianism mixed with politics turns into political libertarianism. Then you get people stamping their feet and insisting that "anarchism is NOT libertarianism" because "true libertarianism" embraces the State, but wants it kept "small".
Even if politics was part of the original mix, you improve a thing by distilling away the politics. Remove the contaminant and you've got something better. (According to everyone who isn't invested in promoting the dross, anyway.)
Politics seems to be the one thing that is always bad to add; never an improvement or an essential ingredient for making a superior alloy.
I've been pondering for days whether there is anything that gets better if you mix a little politics into it, and have come up empty. Maybe I'm missing something that you can think of. And I guess it would depend on your definition of "better".
