And what that means is the ability to think that compromise is required or even want to participate in the process goes down, which makes finding common ground even harder. And I will say that The political process, where we are, where especially in state government, I mean at the local level, people still run nominally as nonpartisan. at the state, at the national level, they really unfortunately don't interact with people like they used to even 10 or 15 years ago. (10:00–10:10)
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