In one of the No Kings protest photos there was a sign "If Kamala was President we'd be at brunch." Reading that it's hard not to think it might be true for a lot of people, there would still be genocide in Gaza and ICE working away but it would all be managed with a bit more tact or subtlety... Maybe?

> It’s too easy to point at the low-hanging moral fruit without doing the work that those who are supposedly on the side of the angels need to do. There’s all this talk of being on the right side of history, but what does that mean? ‘‘The arc of moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’’ Who’s bending it? What are we doing to further that? If you just get rid of Trump, that doesn’t end this. It’s too easy to say: ‘‘I support this other guy. Therefore, I’m part of the solution.’’ Or: ‘‘You support that guy. Therefore, you’re the problem.’’ Now, that is in no way exculpatory to the supporters of those policies or that regime. My point was: What does that judgment get you? What is the accountability that we have for those who really do believe this is unjust but still accept the tacit societal arrangements?
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> But I still believe that the root of this problem is the society that we’ve created that contains this schism, and we don’t deal with it, because we’ve outsourced our accountability to the police.

A meme that I probably saw from a "walled garden" site prompted the search that turned up this 2020 article interview:

nytimes.com/interactive/2020/0…

#JonStewart #uspol #MoralArc #MoralUniverse #DoBendWell

Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In

In the five years since Jon Stewart left ‘The Daily Show,’ American politics has been in a state of constant turmoil and he has remained mostly out of the spotlight.

^{David Marchese (The New York Times)}