Aspects of our lives as communities grow up around us from generation to generation and we cease to think of the essence of the things and accept what we are presented as the thing itself. Politics is not about voting not about constitutions, these things are the mechanics and the Laws we have grown around a very basic human need – how do we deal with each other? And no matter how many layers we place on top of this question in terms of laws and expectations, the question is actually answered for many of us in how well or badly or indifferently we socialise when we are children.
Because a huge amount of empathy is required for us to understand each other on an individual by individual basis.
Think of it this way,we make love with every word we say to our lovers, with every action, every movement, look of the eye, in every conversation, everything we do together and even apart when we let them know we are thinking about them, is love making. So too we are political in every interaction with people (and animals for that matter) in every thought, every opinion and every moment we live amongst others.
Making laws is merely to enact; like sex, the substance is every thought that comes before and afterwards.