In my experience, most good devs have no head for politics. The kind of thinking needed to thrive in politics is very different from that needed to write good c

In my experience, most good devs have no head for politics. The kind of thinking needed to thrive in politics is very different from that needed to write good code. The best politicians combine a cold blooded ruthlessness and extreme ambition with some idealism. The worst don't have the idealism, or are actively evil. Most good politicians are extroverts who love meeting people and are very good at organizational wheeling and dealing and power plays. Most devs are the opposite of all that, and the few who do have some political skills end up as CEOs and such. By and large, developers can't even handle office politics. Legislative politics is to office politics as a knife fight in a dark alley is to a pillow fight.