In an age where everything is changing rapidly, politics or at least the practice of politics has often been slow to adapt. Politicians and the strategists who work for them , will immediately point to social media, and say look we're  adapting. Forgetting of course that much of the social media crowd are famously fickle, and often lampooned as having the attention span of a gnat. There is of course a voter base for all parties, but the undecided vote and that base  have grown  tired of the same old thing. There has long been a desire to have people become more involved with politics, but the more involved and interested they become, the more critical they have become. People no longer are willing to sit quietly while a party tells them what they think and what they need to do. People have found a voice , and applying derogatory labels to people because of a political view,won't make them go away. People have power, and they are using it.