For men conversation is just another form of combat. Words are weapons we throw at each other. I was a legislator for a time and so got very familiar with the use of words as weapons. I learned early on that when I told people that they were wrong, had made a terrible mistake or were about to, they were seldom grateful. In fact, they usually got mad at me.
Words are powerfl, dangerous weapons in the hands of a skilled politician.
And just because they don't have anything to say, doesn't stop them from saying it anyway. Legislative debates could drone on for hours. It's not that everything that could be said hadn't been said early on in the debate, it's just that it took some time for everyone to say it. A very common mistake for men in combat with words is to assume that volume and repetition bring clarity. I remember once going on leave from our ship which had docked in Roda Spain.