Politics, a necessary evil: is it always necessary? is it always evil?

Politics, at least as I see it, is essentially about how the resources are to be used and who gets to decide.

I say when you have three people, you have politics. Some will say it’s when you have two.

Is there such a thing as a group large or small—from a family to a society—that functions without politics?

And is there any group that you know of, in the living world, in history, in fiction, or in myth, in which politics isn’t or wasn’t divisive and destructive? Is there any group that hasn’t been or won’t be ultimately torn apart by politics?