of what gets done that impacts tens of millions of americans represents a critical flaw in the structure of democracy as it is operating now? it may not be at the time of its creation. now with 330 million people, 50 states. it doesn't seem to be functioning the way it was intended to. >> the problem that we have is that we have what we had back in the cold war era. these southern democrats who look like they have the democratic label but in fact, they were ultra conservative and deeply anti-civil rights. deeply anti-black. and they would align with the conservative republicans in order to block key legislation that would make this democracy vibrant. they blocked anti-lynching legislation. they blocked civil rights legislation. they blocked fair employment legislation. so that's what we're having right now. when you see sinema and manchin, they're acting like traditional