Regardless of whether a politician is liberal or conservative running for public office is an honorable endeavor.  It is easy enough to redicule politicians, and honestly some by their actions deserve ridicule.  But society works because the overwhelming majority of politicians from the lowest elected office to higher offices, spend a good part of their waking hours each day trying to figure out how they can make the things that us non-politicians take for granted work for us.  Why don't you convince city hall in your city to turn off all the traffic lights for one day and order the police to do anything else except traffic detail, this would be a pure manifestation of where you seem to want society to head, please let me know how it works out.