The United Kingdom, like many countries, is deeply divided and those divisions have turned ugly.

Just listen to the voices of three female politicians from different parties describing the sort of abuse they've had to endure.

They'd threatened to come down and they were going to rape me and beat me up.

A far-right website in the United States initiated the hashtag,

which the police said resulted in me receiving over 2.5,000

violent, pornographic, anti-Semitic extreme messages in just one day alone.

I do object to being called a Nazi actually.

This is what has happened to our country actually.

This is what's happened to our country.

There have always been politicians ready to exploit our differences.

But now, members of the public in unprecedented numbers abuse insult, and threaten politicians.

As this race to the bottom gathers peace, it seems everyone's losing.

I have a lot of friends on Capitol Hill and Washington, members of the U.S. Congress and Senate,

and they'll say to me, I just feel like I'm blown on the winds of this thing.

That's Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks.

If I actually say what I think, which is the people on the other side of the aisle, the other party, I don't hate them as people, I'll lose my next election.

And so I think that politicians are in a very strange way sometimes. I think they're victims of this too.

Arthur Brooks has different politics from my own.

He's from the American Right.

But when I read his latest book,

Love Your enemies, I found much that I agreed with. He believes that many politicians

now feel they have to follow the noisy and abuse of few, so who can improve our conversation? His answer might surprise you.

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