Perhaps rather than POLYTICS we should rename. To what? How about INANE TICS? Far more truthful isn't it?

POLY
Much/many

INANE
Lacking sense, significance or ideas
Empty, void
Pointless/foolish are synonyms

Far more apt and truthful

What could it hurt to truthify?

TICS

A persistent or recurrent behavior/trait; quirk

I anoint thee INANETICS hereafter in the here and the hereafter

So what would have been a polytician  is an Inanetician. Classier, fancier, TRUTHIER