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Running in those seats won't simply be able to get away with playing to the base. they'll actually have to reach across the aisle and win over the reasonable edge of the opposition. which is how democracy's supposed to work. but that's exactly what's been under systematic attack. the incentive system in our politics is all screwed up. by design. and that's why the parties are preoccupied with these purity tests and don't seem to give a damn about working together to solve common problems. you don't believe me? let's dig into the data. according to the cook political report, there were 164 cong...

Competitive general elections. what a concept. it means that the politicians running in those seats won't simply be able to get away with playing to the base. they'll actually have to reach across the aisle and win over the reasonable edge of the opposition. which is how democracy's supposed to work. but that's exactly what's been under systematic attack. the incentive system in our politics is all screwed up. by design. and that's why the parties are preoccupied with these purity tests and don't seem to give a damn about working together to solve common problems. you don't believe me? let's d...

Defined that middle ground, we have stopped fighting with one another over -- we didn't get exactly what we wanted there, we need to find common ground, pass the bills like president biden has already done to his own executive action cutting child poverty in half in the united states in his first year in office, that's almost a miracle. if the rest of the party comes together, we can show those other benefits to the american people. such as over 40% of our roads are poor or moderate at best and if we get this infrastructure bill through, we start fixing roads and small towns throughout america...

And among conservatives. now we are seeing what is really been going on. >> shannon: let's read something from steve israel, he is a former democratic representative and he headed up reelection efforts for democrats in the house side. he writes this, this is a form of electroshock therapy for democrats to stop infighting and start delivering tangible results for an impatient electorate. to coin a phrase, never bring reconciliation to an electoral knife fight. in the war between progressive democrats and moderate democrats, republicans won. what should democrats take from this moving forward an...

And they think they're going to win. if we don't fight them, come together and put aside these purity tests and democrats have to really challenge themselves here. this is a character test for democrats. republicans failed their character test, but democrats have to be willing to come together and put aside differences and fight for democracy because they're really the last best hope we have here. >> juanita, i've never heard a better setup for you to see -- are they up for the fight as seen by jon and stuart? >> in the halls of congress youtd both mccarthy and mcconnell vote against a commiss...