What is politics, ** once said that politics is to make more friends and fewer enemies, this is incisive.
Personally, I think that the essence of politics is actually morality and the rule of law, why do you say that?Because morality and the rule of law are the foundation for creating a harmonious society, and also the key to establishing social order, the improvement of ideology and morality makes people not do bad things in their subjective initiative, and they are in peace, while the rule of law is objectively passive and makes people dare not do bad things, otherwise they will be severely punished by the law.
On this point, there are two major schools of thought in ancient China have long had a view on politics, one is Confucianism, the other is Legalism, Confucianism believes that human nature is good, and the reason why people will do evil is because of the lack of education, so it is necessary to educate people, educate people, and let people know what is good and evil, while Legalism believes that human nature is evil, and only by using strict laws can we restrain the evil in people's hearts, so that people dare not do bad things, and in my opinion, both Confucianism and Legalism have their own truths, both are correct, but they are biased, I personally think that Confucianism is correct in educating people's hearts, but Confucianism also underestimates the evil of human natureBecause some people's inferior nature is too heavy, education can only play a temporary role, and cannot fundamentally change a person, and the Legalists' abuse of harsh laws is unpopular, and what if the law enforcers themselves are not a good thing?Therefore, it is necessary to apply both Confucianism and law, with ideological and moral education as the mainstay, supplemented by legal constraints, which is now called morality and the rule of law.
In the final analysis, the existence of the law is created unconsciously by people's moral thoughts and behaviors, so the strictness of the law is necessary, but we should not be overly superstitious about the constraints of the law, because no matter how strict the law, we also need to have law enforcers to enforce it, otherwise the law will become a dead letter, and the moral education of law enforcers is more important, because it is not uncommon to know the law and break the lawAll in all, if you want to create a harmonious society and establish social order, you can't just rely on education and have corresponding punishment means, so morality and the rule of law are to establish order in the chaos and restrain people's bad behaviorTherefore, to sum up, the essence of politics is morality and the rule of law.