. Therefore, politics should reform the people. It is actually meant for them.
Regrettably, politics in today's societies has moved from reformation of the citizens to their deformation as it's no more about a government of the people, by the people and for the people in deciding who gets what,, when and how as Harold Lasswell explained it. A little group of elites are now in charge of the people deciding for their daily lives through the machinery of the state, suppressing and oppressing any opposition to their rule and dictatorial leadership disguise in form of democracy.