What's the Goal of Emotional Signaling?

The most effective strategy for any new way of thinking is to subvert the ruling class. In a modern Western society, basically politics is the elves and their allies against the hobbits. When you have cultural policies that either appeal to the hobbits or even worse, allow the hobbits to impose their hobbit lifestyles on elves, like I don't get it at all, right? Like this is wrong.