I agree with much of this post but some of the phraseology strikes me as a bit of a performative contradiction. If speculating about politics is a waste of life, does that mean that speculating about people who speculate about politics is a waste of life by extension? If so, given the implications of the action axiom (all purposeful action is undertaken to reduce felt uneasiness), wouldn't the act of making the claim demonstrate a preference contrary to the content of the claim? It seems to be implied here that all political speculation is necessarily prescriptive despite the fact that "political speculation is a waste of life" presupposes that one has already arrived at a preferred position on politics through speculation, and despite the fact that your own speculative analysis of politics appears to be both prescriptive and descriptive.

Good post, otherwise.