Politicians, by definition, work for fights (arguments), not real things. PG mentions how unproductive fights are in his article, and (I think implicitly) says

Politicians, by definition, work for fights (arguments), not real things. PG mentions how unproductive fights are in his article, and (I think implicitly) says that fights are proportional to meanness. Not that parent and grandparent are not good points; the hypothesis he presents is quite unlikely given the correlation between psycopathic traits and business leaders (particularly "turn around an unsuccessful enterprise" CEOs.)[1] [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-dist...