Human Nature

I think it was Hobbes who wondered if 'humans are inherently good with some bad tendencies or are they bad with some good tendencies?" Is the political arena a good place to comment about human nature? Is politics the place to catch humans in their natural state? The further you are away from the politics the less blemished we seem to be. The closer we get to that vortex the more our shortcomings are revealed. Once we fall into it, we become something we never thought we could be. It's where all of humanities demands and hopes are converged. We go in for the good and end up discovering that the bad is all too real and spend our lives containing it.