All “brands” of politics get their talking points from hacks.
I studied politics in my first year of my first (undergraduate) Uni course.
For a healthy democracy, society needs a strong government with ideas, and a strong opposition to stop the government getting too arrogant about their own future.
I live in Australia. We currently have an opposition that got trounced so badly at the last election they’re not even in a position to challenge for government at the next election. So the government takes their power for granted.
Nothing makes a politician work harder for the people they represent than the thought they can easily be voted out. Here there are party hacks with safe “seats” that have been held by their party for decades.
I’ve lived in marginal, “bellweather” electorates. At a Federal level, there are about 5-10 “bellweather” electorates. These are the seats that are almost always won by the party that wins the election and forms government. My electorate now has been won by the same party for about 4 elections. The elected representative doesn’t work hard enough for the people who vote for her. But in the “bellweather” seats the candidates knock,on doors, attend community events and know they have to work to get or keep their jobs. Strangely enough, those seats always seem to get better services from the government, like sporting club rooms and health services.