compromise because all you got to do is appease the base who helped you win a primary because you're in a noncompetitive district. david, that was excellent. so glad to have you here tonight. >> thanks a lot, michael. what are your thoughts? reach out to me on social media. at the end of the program -- oh, we got one more. centrists are unable to win the primary, so our elected officials are more polarized. far left, far right, while most of the country is center left or center right. amen to that. there was something important that david just brought out. gerrymandering gets the attention, right? that's when the boundary lines every ten years based on the census are manipulated to suit one political party or the other. that's only half the dynamic. did you hear him also discuss self-sorting? more and more we are living among the like-minded. you know what's on the rise? blowout counties in this country. we don't redraw county boundary lines. there are 3,000 counties in the united states. look at maps and you'll see that they are now becoming