Interference
Religion is control, spirituality is freedom from religion. Tune out all of the noise blocking you from having relationships.
The way political parties interfere with democracy is identical to the way that religion interferes with spirituality.
Both distort, pervert relationships in pursuit of monetary outcomes. Both spare no expense intellectually, suppressing truths and facts in order to install lies in service to the Antichrist who is not a being but a system that uses cultural institutions to consume health and wealth. It's the Beast of Revelations.
Politicians and mainstream religious leaders long ago sold out to the Antichrist—it's known as hypocrisy—and gave up their power by rationalizing God would forgive them, ignoring that God is not mocked: you reap what you sow. There's no escaping that principle.
There is, however, a remedy that ameliorates the evil they've sown into the collective epigenetic: love your neighbor as yourself, do unto to others as you would—but never expect—them do unto you.
It's possible but wholly unrealistic to give up the false power of money for the real power of love that develops relationships to such a high fidelity that creates on Earth what has always existed in heaven.
Religion is control, spirituality is freedom from religion.
Beast and Antichrist. The latter controls people in service to the Beast's insatiable appetite for the false power of money.