Nothing lasts an eternity, but eternity and mine will be spent in Heaven, not Hell.
If you told your children (or your wife or employees) that there would be no consequences for their bad acts, do you think that your children would behave, that your wife would be the wonderful wife/mother that you want, or that your employees would always be on time and on the job? Or do you think that they'd keep doing all the wrong things knowing that they had nothing to fear?
Politicians ARE our employees and they are like children that need to be watched and disciplined because if we don't, they will treat us like an abused spouse. We'll get mistreated and screwed.
I don't agree with your analogy. Politics, someone once said, is the art of the "possible." What's "possible" in a dangerously divided nation is never what's "ideal."