Really nice profile of The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart over in the Guardian today. Here’s a snippet:
If the parties and the media serve the country so badly, why do Americans put up with it? “Because for the majority of Americans life is pretty tolerable,” says Stewart. “It’s very hard to organise reasonable people with moderate views. Reasonable people with moderate views don’t usually light their torches and head out to town with pitchforks shouting, Be reasonable. Shit has to get really bad before people stand up and take notice.”
There’s a lot of folks on dKos and other left-leaning blogs who don’t understand why most of America seems unwilling or unable to get angry the way they are angry. They tend to write those people off as “sheeple” — too stupid or too cowed to take action. Stewart sees another aspect. I tend to agree with him.