With regards to your last paragraph, I would refrain from ascribing any “fundamental purpose” to politics. Things that are optimized (for example, by being designed) have purposes but politics does not seem like an obviously optimized phenomena, so saying ‘fundamentally politics is X’ is likely to be a mistake.
With regards to your last paragraph, I would refrain from ascribing any “fundamental purpose” to politics. Things that are optimized (for example, by being designed) have purposes but politics does not seem like an obviously optimized phenomena, so saying ‘fundamentally politics is X’ is likely to be a mistake.