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This has become kind of axiomatic out in america. >> absolutely. and it's true. because you look at the districts where the republicans are in the biggest trouble. it's these affluent, educated suburbs where there are whole foods. and the places where they still have a fighting chance, although in talking to republicans over the last 48 hours, i will say they are getting more and more nervous about the districts that are redder that don't have whole foods. you see this re-alignment kind of taking place with the electorate here where increasingly gerrymandering isn't the only thing that's bifur...

All of it led to we do not try to persuade and win, we try to find people to agree with us in order to win an election. >> this is not a solution, but in one way or another, if you eliminated many of the committees like. democratic and republican campaign committees from the face of the map, you might begin to get a different dialogue in terms of campaign. so, the industry of politics over the time aye been in washington, which is a long time now, has grown and grown and grown, there was a full-time industry -- >> it's an industry. the fact that it's an industry. >> it's an industry designed t...

Now, has grown and grown and grown, there was a full-time industry -- >> it's an industry. the fact that it's an industry. >> it's an industry designed to demonize and destroy the opposition as opposed to talking about what we were talking about which is providing a more visionary or more -- >> money is the root of that. mccain-feingold was part of it. >> it's not all money. >> industries are based on finance. >> here's what we're spiraling toward. i'm going to end with this, by 2040 this sort of self segregation that was started with gerrymandering in 70% of the country is going to be represe...

2040, this self-segregation that was started with gerrymandering, 70% of the country is going to be represented by 30 senators. >> astounding. >> if we continue to have a geographic split in this country that goes along party lines, that is a disaster in the making, is it not? >> yeah, i mean, i've categorized it this way. we're heading for a national divorce. not any time soon, but the trends are we're separating from each other and we don't like each other, and we don't watch what each other watches on television, increasingly we don't even watch the same sports except for the super bowl. i ...

Translated into unequal access to security, basic health care and education. despite the fact that the supreme court ordered school desegregation 61 years ago schools have actually become less diverse in the last two decades. a ucla study last year pointed out that many black and latino students, quote, face almost total isolation, not only from white and asian students but also from middle-class peers as well. these findings would not surprise the singaporeans. the natural workings of society rarely lead to diverse and integrated communities, not in singapore, not anywhere else the prime mini...