but you mentioned that the different from you politically, ideologgically. i want to ask a broad question, which is, politically, what do you make of the state of things, state of affairs in our country right now? and i deliberately don't want to color it any more than that. that, i think there's and one hasogress to be patient. that's my particular feeling. i'm sort of, in the state of the country, i'm appalled by the lack of progress in our senate and house of representatives. obstructionism is extraordinary and i hope that the american public understands that, you know, we have three levels of government. we have the executive, but there's legislative and judicial and the legislative needs to be doing their job. but everybody's got their own opinion. all i can do is vote and that's it. that's it. but i think we have to take the broadest picture possible and understand what -- that character of mine and that play, she says to her daughter, there are consequences to our actions, and that is the most -- a friend of mine who is a vast liberal said that to me