Politics is creeping into more and more areas. It's a trend that seems to be accelerating.

How did this happen and what does it mean?

Doug Casey: The politicization of the country is poisonous. Politics is not like the fiction of some friends getting together and deciding what movie to see. It's about force and coercion. This is the myth of democracy, which amounts to a somewhat gentler version of mob rule.

Politics is about getting control of the reins of the State. It's a question of one group of people getting to tell every other group what they must and must not do. And how much they have to pay for the privilege.

It's astonishing politics has become so popular—considering that only the worst kind of people are drawn to it. As evidence, I'd offer the current slate of Democratic presidential candidates. Although, I promise you, their Republican counterparts, waiting in the wings, are no better. Remember that lineup of buffoons who were on stage in 2016?