Dem Politicians are in Dem Talk, Enemies of State. If it’s bad for you they are for it. If it’s good for you they are against it.
Yes, because they spend a fortune on social programs like drug counseling, courts, homeless shelters, food banks, public education etc and get a lot of voting blocks out of that spending. So they tend to favor horrible policies that make things worse in order to justify demands for more votes spending in block grants to their constituencies.