One of the rants I had been working on to send to this list had to do with looking at "politics" from the perspective of the tyrants, viewing the rest of us as their slaves. In short, the question was going to be, if you ruled the world, and were completely evil, what is the best way to get the most out of your slaves? Beating them and making them miserable is NOT it.
Well, I'm not going to finish my rant because, unbeknownst to me, someone else did it for me. And he did it via video, which seems to keep more peoples' attention than mere words. So here is a fairly short video made by Stefan Molyneux (another radical extremist) that makes the point so well that I really have nothing to add: