Note also that politicians will strategically choose to be less polarizing, if being less polarizing is the recipe for electoral success. (Or less-polarizing politicians will be the ones who succeed and become prominent contributors to national conversation.) And people take cues from politicians, they don’t just elect politicians who agree with their fixed opinions. So anyway, I guess I’m saying, there isn’t a clean upstream / downstream flow, I think...
Note also that politicians will strategically choose to be less polarizing, if being less polarizing is the recipe for electoral success. (Or less-polarizing politicians will be the ones who succeed and become prominent contributors to national conversation.) And people take cues from politicians, they don’t just elect politicians who agree with their fixed opinions. So anyway, I guess I’m saying, there isn’t a clean upstream / downstream flow, I think...