Politics — something doesn’t add up

Politics sounds complicated, but it rests on one line. The individual on one end, the collective on the other. Both promise fairness, safety, and progress.

At its root, politics rests on one simple line.

On one end is individualism, which people call the right. It begins with the person. You can speak, work, own, dissent. The state is limited. Power is spread out. Responsibility is yours. Follow that logic to its edge and the state disappears. That edge is anarchism. No central government, no enforced autho…