The problem with that is that disaffected people vote and politicians can win by being emotionally satisfying when the alternatives aren't.
The common denominator on the left and the right is a completely garbled and fragmentary concept of the Constitution. Until recently you would have thought right wingers only cared about the second amendment although in the last ten years they've discovered the first but in the garbled sense that Facebook owes you a megaphone (for "free as in beer") and Twitter is doing a crime if they don't give your posts maximum visiblity with all the other spam and scams.
> politicians can win by being emotionally satisfying
That is called populism and comes with a huge stigma for a reason.
> The common denominator on the left and the right is a completely garbled and fragmentary concept of the Constitution.
Sure, a disagreement with what people think and what the constitution says is going to cause problems. Ultimately society is based on trust, once you loose that you have already lost some important part. The existence and growth of para-country organizations (e.g. FAANG) has certainly affected if not effected your current issue (and continues to do so for other countries in the world).
Pedantry: the general term is emotivism, not populism. "intellectuals" (shorthand for the average HNer) are vulnerable to that, we just won't admit it.
It's hard for trust to work beyond the Dunbar limit-- representative democracy is a jerry-rig-- but Swiss sidestep that with (a version of) direct democracy
Update: since there's a false etymology that "jerry" comes from "German", may I suggest we stay below the line
The common denominator on the left and the right is a completely garbled and fragmentary concept of the Constitution. Until recently you would have thought right wingers only cared about the second amendment although in the last ten years they've discovered the first but in the garbled sense that Facebook owes you a megaphone (for "free as in beer") and Twitter is doing a crime if they don't give your posts maximum visiblity with all the other spam and scams.