Jon Stewart

How do you convince people like the immigration situation right now, uh, in this country is a great it's it's resource guarding.

How do you reshape the narrative so that

we're able to invest once again in our people and not have those investments be so resented by anybody that might not need it.

How do you broaden people's perspective in that way?

So you've got to pay $10 to go to the polls and you've got to do it right.

Pure transaction.

Right.

Well, they always say the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, but they don't explain like, yeah, but not by itself.

And there's a bunch of people on the other side trying to bend it back the other way.

And I wonder, when we talk about the moral argument, do we have to connect it to...

more earthly values for people, because it feels like that's the backlash that we're facing.

That if the right was going to draw a line, like what you and I might do is draw a line at the depression, right?

And we might draw a line at FDR coming in and creating a government that is more designed for the benefit of the people it purports to represent.

They would draw a line

at 1964 and 1965.

They would draw a line at the Civil Rights Act and they would draw a line at the Immigration Act, which let in people from countries that they didn't quite have, ignoring the fact that they hated the Irish and they hated the Italian and they hated the Jews back when they came.

But now you're bringing in people.

And so their perspective on that is now our country is being given away to people who don't have shit.

They even use the phrase

the heritage Americans are more important than the other Americans, that there are somehow the Scotch Irish that were here in the 1850s were somehow better Americans than the ones that came in in the 60s and 70s.