There are two vital things people seem not to know. The purpose of politics is for managing their affairs. Every politician appointed to the political apparatus has a fiduciary responsibility to work for the greater good of every citizen because the practice of politics is commissioned by a national Constitution.
Stoking hostility and raising rancor remains the single offer of the Party that has the word 'progressive ' in it... having already demonstrated what it does with national revenues and nation building, for as long as many of these voters have been alive.