Jon Stewart
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And the crazy part is that the ultimate paradox or contradiction is exactly what you're describing is the story of America's founding, that it was a rejection of that particular system, that an exploitative system where the voices of the government were ignored because of the resources that they could extract out of the population.
And that's why we...
That's what birthed us.
That fight was our fight.
And so to see us become the very thing that we rejected...
is so hard to process, especially when you think about how that movement, Trump's movement, wraps themselves in the iconography of our founding.
How many buses have you seen?
There were the We the People and Don't Tread on Me and all those sorts of the totems of our revolution while creating a system that's antithetical to the entirety of the purpose of that revolution.
And I don't know if they โ or I certainly don't think that they in any way see that contradiction.
That's got to be a bumper sticker, Heather.
Humans are going to human.
But I love what you're saying with that, Heather.
And it reminds me, you know, to wrap it around, you know, you said sort of early on one thing that I think is
has to be a top of mind which is you don't know the future it hasn't been written and as we watch these sorts of almost slow motion car crash happening the fact of the matter is
we can in our frustration overturn those injustices and we can in our frustration regain and have a more, we can reaffirm our desire to create the society that we think is fair and to do that in a way that isn't necessarily over an epoch, but it can happen in a moment.
It really can.