I've been thinking why media and politicians use so radical language. My guess is that moderate language will be seen by their voters as a conspiracy of some so

I've been thinking why media and politicians use so radical language. My guess is that moderate language will be seen by their voters as a conspiracy of some sort. You say "mental health responders" but the radical voters read it as "hmm.. by not demanding to defund police he must be secretly supporting police, so he must be a republican and we don't want any of those here". There was an HN post explaining this idea better, why there are no moderate centrists these days: those would be ousted by both hard left and hard right.