Politics is Obnoxious?

I despise politics wholeheartedly: thus I am neither a Bolshevik, nor a National Socialist, nor an anti-Semite. I am a neutral Swiss and even in my own country I am uninterested in politics because I am convinced that 99% of politics are mere symptoms and anything but a cure for social evils. About 50% of politics is definitely obnoxious inasmuch as it poisons the utterly incompetent mind of the masses.

A statement by Carl Jung when visiting the United States in 1936

While reading the latest Jung biography, the above quote leapt out at me (especially in light of Huw’s recent comment ).