It's starting to become all about the authoritarian socialist revolution and how to contain it/force it.
Not Brexit.
The Tories have to appeal to a certain chunk of left authoritarians for power, whilst trying to also keep as many Conservative liberals on the right as possible
Labour have to appeal to as many on the left as possible. So have to appear both authoritarian and liberal.
In term of the centre. Social attitudes show that the centre is in fact left leaning. The centre is also authoritarian leaning.
So if you are liberal leaning this will all feel pretty horrific at the moment.
Authoritarians believe their world view is right. They are less likely to be willing to compromise. They don't see the value in it. Thus this also affects their understanding of the concept of democracy. Authoritarians want to take down democracy for this reason because the concept of compromise they dislike. Thus the language is corrupted and functions of democracy are at threat. This is coming from both left and right. The authoritarian left has now almost completed a take over of power in Labour. The message is clear - this is what social should look like and if you disagree you are not a socialist. And it's all bollocks. They aren't even challenging austerity properly cos they want to ruin people in order to gain more support.
It's abhorrent.
But the point here is the Tories have to talk tough in that dynamic to grab more and more left authoritarians. Or they are going to have to throw economic bones at certain parts of the left.
None of this works for feminists or women in general. And it's going to get worse.
This is why the lib dems are floundering so much. Traditionally they are centre right and Liberal. They are distrusted by the left learners and the natural centre right is small. Plus younger LD are not actually liberal but increasingly authoritarian. So a future vision is utterly perplexing to them. Not surprised Vince wants out. He doesn't fit at all.
Something has to give at some point. There is a breaking point. Increasing hard not to see civil unrest when compromise is increasingly frowned on by politicians.