Politics are the strategies we employ to accomplish our goals. Politics are inherent in us all and it would be fallacious to argue that one is not political. There are those who are very skilled at politics and their success can be very obvious and there are those who are not very skilled at politics and their own demise can be traced back to this lack of skill in politics. Julius Caesar was a profoundly skilled general and tactician and his proclivity toward sharing his plunder made him popular as a general. Once he became emperor his lack of political skill ultimately killed him. When we are children and in school we don't vote for who's popular because we are pretending to do what the grown ups do. We vote for who's most popular or for prom king and queen and even leaders of student council because politics is a part of who we are. Cheerleaders tend to be popular because they are remarkably cheerful. Emotionally speaking they are very high toned and this makes them popular with most and hated by the rest. The geeks who ate lunch alone in the high school cafeteria did so because of their lack of political skill. In fact the definition of geek should be one who lacks political or social skills. Social skills is politics.
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