on social media. and on the hard left -- on the hard right it's pretty much the same except efor the viewpoint and they're only 6% of the population. so those polarized extremes are only 14% of us but they're the ones controlling the national conversation. accord thing to survey about 67% of the rest of us fall into an exhausted majority. among whom there's agreement even on hot button issues. so why do we only see division around us? the politicians. a study of political division among the house and senate members published in the journal by zachary neal. he found active avoidance off bipartisan collaboration has gotten worse every year since the 1970s and yet those politicians don't reflect our believes if you look at exhibit number three.