Reply #1: Interesting question.

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Although most people do not seek political gain for political gain, but because what will be achieved from that.


When you look at what is done, things form chains, like someone supporting someone, trying to get in an office, so they can do something when there.

The goal is not to get into the office but to make some difference on some issue, so then politicking becomes not the goal.


The thing is, most people are only shown the politicking, and not the goals behind it. So you hear a story about some distraction that is politics, but do not hear the entire chain of events that it is for. And some times that is intentional since the goals of some groups would not be liked by very many people, so they talk about the surface stuff without getting to what people try to do.