it moves power to the extremes. take a look at this. the number of competitive congressional districts, you know, where the general election actually mattered where the candidates had to compete for votes in the middle, those have been cut in more than half since 1997 by design through the rigged system of redistricting and it's likely to get much worse so that forces the politicians further to the extremes and guess what? that translates to how they vote in congress. you see a polarization both parties playing to the respective bases. there is almost no over lap now between what used to be a hand full of progressive republicans and conservative democrats and you can find a constructive compromise. that's gone out the window. and if you look closely, it's important to say this is a symmetric polarization. the republican party, they moved further right than democrats have left and you can see that in the composition of the parties. we talk about being a divided nation evenly but independent