Great to have song choices to illustrate your words! Politics is also a less favourite word, it really implies that you are playing the game rather than trying to achieve substance. A waste of time and effort, but on the other hand an essential part of garnering support for ideas...

Interesting about your take on serendipity, I had a different connotation in mind. That it was a linking of two (of more) unrelated events to point out a path forward that was unexpected.