Christianity is known as the woman's religion because it is based on unthinking submission. Politics then must be the man's religion, for it is based on competition and the hunger for power.
Ideally, politics should be the tool of wisdom - with wisdom coming first, the foundation upon which all else is built. When politics becomes primary to our existence we have reached the deepest depths of depravity. Thus we are at rock-bottom.
Parliamentary discussions remind me of theologians throwing scriptural quotes at each other. Their words and even their personalities are scripted. Their greatest pleasure is in bludgeoning their opponents to death with witty and articulate debate. The validity of an argument is beside the point, it is the winning that matters - the power.