Politics is not all about confrontation. It's not a game to demean opponanents. History of politics tells us it was developed by society to find a common place for different warning factions of population. In this course idea of state, sovereign power, government etc emerged and orderly society was expected. So politics has as many branches as one can think, but interestingly those involved in politics dont understand the significance of it all the time. The very crux of the politics from the very inception of this concept is negotiation. If u avoid meaningful negotiation based on the innovation u r not doing politics, rather u r bullying society's moral . If u are government u r destined to win ur people by ur ideas and not by ur number. Such a task is not politics, its just militarization.
The same erroneous decision was taken by the Kauravas, by the Nazis, by the Europeans in 18th-19th cent and by our own present govt. The only difference is that our present govt is more heywaired as it has still not sensed that govt's enemies are not own people .
There are two types of militarization , one equipped with arms to protect or expand boundaries and the other equipped with bullying ideas and attitudes. In modern days fake news, trolls, use of institutions to quell the voice of opposition etc are weapons for fight against own people. Can u imagine a situation where the top most office bearers of the govt play the role to create and spread fake news, to trolls others? This is a reality now a days from America to India. Politics has been manipulated to train it as a hoard of hox. This militarization is more dangerous than imperialism. In Imperialism at least the victim was a foreign country, but the causality of ideological militarization is not other than the state's own people. In imperialism there is no emotional bond between the people of two countries but in case of domestic and ideological militarization emotions are the most potent means to convince people that they are superiors to others.