There is poetry in soccer, say for instance, as demonstrated by the Spanish side which won the 2010 FIFA world cup.
Politics, in contrast, has become a kind of free-for-all wrestling match. Unfortunately, the politics which exists today is that as defined by Machiavelli, whether we like it or not.

According to Machiavelli, if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary. This we see passionately adhered to by Amit Shah and Narendra Modi.

As a result, with no possibility of fair play, we are left with an AIADMK, a DMK or a TTV Dinakaran while in the Centre, a congress or BJP (one being none the better than other) to choose from...

Hence we wake up to the reality of a Dinakaran victory in R.K.Nagar.

(Machiavelli quote from J.M.Coetzeee’s Diary of a Bad Year).