User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Global Goals: Why We're Telling Everyone/@comment-97.117.239.242-20150927042024/@comment-1038387-20150928122902

Anarchy means more than just that - look up anarchism. Basically, small societies rule themselves. A voluntary tribalism. Doesn't work, because it requires large groups to voluntarily work together. As long as "old" government doesn't participate (and stays in place), they'll be an imagined state within a state that thinks it should set its own rules - which the bigger state won't like. Unless there's a Mad Max-esque apocalypse, anarchism won't work. But then again, most ideologies in their pure, uncompromising form won't work.

The (simplified) dichotomy is rulers or no rulers. Politicians is a subset of rulers. Arguably one of the better options in those subsets. We may not like them, but all alternatives - monarchy, military, ruling classes, no rulers at all... they're all worse.