Jon Stewart on Never Ending Elections with Doris Kearns Goodwin and Eugene Daniels (Teaser) 

The craziest thing in our nation and we have lots of them, is the fact that we legally consider corporations “people”. That has got to be the FIRST thing to go.

Canada here - 50 days max and 36 days minimum by statute. Canadians prefer the minimum to the maximum.

I love how Doris Kearns Goodwin just rocks up to this wearing a leather blazer like she's ready to throw down but in a civilized way.

Why isn't election day a holiday? It's literally the most important day in America much more important than Thanksgiving and Christmas

Standing with Jon Stewart!!!!!!!!! Thank you Jon🥰

The three legged stool of stupidity. Electoral College, Gerrymandering, and Citizens United.

Blame the money on the Supreme Court. Citizens United made that legal.

This is so true. Too much money is almost a guarantee of corruption.

Ranked Choice Voting!!!!! That is far an away the biggest way to impact our politics by reducing the power of the 2 parties, getting away from the divisiveness a 2 party system fosters and making way to start getting money out of politics and assuring that every voter will have a final say when it comes down to the final 2 candidates by ranking them.

We are a very broken nation, who the heck is going to be able to lead us to recovery and to heal from all the bad things we are facing, bankruptcy, war, disease and so many other issues. God help us all!!

The electoral college needs to go; lobbyists need to go; term limits need to be set; age requirement coupled with age restrictions; There certainly are plenty more but let’s start here.

Thank you, Jon, for your passion, heart and intelligence. Thanks to Doris for her breadth of historical perspective (the system can change!), and Eugene's journalistic views -- I agree that Biden's campaign suffered fatal self-inflicted wounds when he uttered "We finally beat Medicare," as well as his uncompleted sentences. Afterward, he was unable to show that the debate was about an episode (as opposed to a condition). I still wonder if his debate performance was a surprise because of his protective "handlers," or the gradual-weight-gain theory. Eugene's explanation of the Democratic party machine and Biden's POV makes sense. I wish you all well on your quest to slay the dragons of campaign finance, media dramatization (vs. illumination), and the Electoral College. At the root of our current situation is lust for political power. If you look at the primary narratves of both presidential candidates, they use fear to drive votes to attain that power. Voters want to protect their values and vocations (e.g. income, livlihoods, lifestyles, survival [roof over your head, victuals, etc.]). Money is the life blood of campaigns (that's why fund raising gets so much attention). Some people and organizations will stop at nothing to perpetuate their values and vocations, dumping billions of dollars into races. You may want campaign finance reform, but many of the people who make the rules are afraid of campaign fund limits. If you can create a groundswell of support for reform, they might listen. The media will continue to dramatize the election process to get clicks so they can feed themselves. Fact distribution and analysis are not as sexy as agenda-laden opinions. People share their opinions and spend time in echo chambers (e.g. Fox, MSNBC) because they love to be right (perhaps I'm doing that right now!). You can look at Q-anon to see how religious pandering, feelings and conspiracies are sexier for the masses than well-researched and reasoned analysis... emotions drive us more than intellect (study marketing if you doubt that). Example: Christians who will vote for a sex offender / alleged adulterer / felon who was admonished by the Pope for his views on immigrants and climate change. Unlike the days of CBS News with Walter Cronkite, a few other network news stations, and some major newspapers, we now have thousands of sources of information vying for attention and relevance. I love the Daily Show and John Oliver, but are they making an impact outside of their audience demographics? Given all that, how do you propose to transform the media? Abolishing the Electoral College would be extremely difficult (Constitutional amendment in this devisive environment?). How would small states see it in their interest to support that? Perhaps you can drum up support for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. To foment change, I think we need to find bipartisan common ground and make proposals that don't overly threaten people's values, vocations, and victuals. Change is already scary, especially for conservatives who want to preserve traditions. Let us work together to build a country that works for just about everyone, and be aware of imposing our values on others.

Thank you for the cutting a clip of this part of the podcast. I want a change that allows the folks that are not rich to be able to run. There are good people out there who would be great leaders but the election system is difficult for them to get into.

Another great show. Can't wait for the next one!

You can only see this when you know other countries but do you realize how much time the US is just campaigning. Every 2 years. Once elected more and more politicians start campaigning for the next no work is done anymore.

It would be nice to do a complete election in six months total

Please, let’s do this!

We should cap our re-election season to 6 months - 3 months for primaries, then 3 months for general.

Eugene!!!!!!!!!!! Great segment, can't wait to hear more!

Popular vote should rule

The only way I see a political change of that magnitude happening in America is going around the party system. Building the whole proposal of a new electoral system and making it go to votes as a referendum in the elections in all states. But it would require a big campaign, debates and so on, so that everyone is aware of what the proposal means.

An Electoral Industrial Complex is an absolutely perfect description😂🤣. MSM loves the practically 2 year process; it really shouldn't take that long. Don't youse have a country to run🤔😸? By comparison, India is the biggest democracy in the 🌎 by way of population. Their process takes seven weeks..

Awesome- rise up on the revolution

My One-Change Solution: Proportional Representation. If getting 51% only gets you a little more representation than getting 49%, if that winner take all aspect were eliminated or reduced, then why buy congressmen?

where does the money go --- to media companies

Not me half expecting jon to announce he's running there at the end.

DKG! AMERICAN TREASURE 💜

Preach Jon!

Best video title.

My wish for American politics is a reset by introducing Proportional Representation (PR). There are different models for it but they basically all aim to ensure parliament looks like people voted percentage wise or in other words like the public vote. All votes have equal weight. It would allow a true multi-party system and consensus based politics.

I have been hearing some version of this discussion for nearly 30 years. Every time it's some luminary who says to the rest of us, as if we don't know, that the system is terrible because the incentives are misaligned. This is not an issue of conceptualization. It is one of political will. All the changes that Doris is referring to happened before the boomers took power. And I fear nothing of serious significance will change until they are mostly dead.

Suggestion: Limit the spending on campaigns you can do. Other countries like the UK have it.

Do it do it do it!!!!

People will rise or fall to the level of your expectations.

"We" didn't create anything. WE are prisoners to all of this..

Jon for VP!!!

we can change the system ....HOW?

Need the day off they can have labor day

We can maybe do all of those things once Donald Trump is defeated, until then the choices are Democracy or Dictatorship (Theocracy/Autocracy)... that message needs attention, not what ifs.

Money is free speech. Money is also corruption... so corruption = free speech?

In Canada an election campaign last for 40 days and we don't have any 'electoral college' nonsense.

You can do it, by running for President!

What a tease.

Secretary of state Doris Kearns Goodwin sounds productive. @VPKamalaHarris

The last few weeks have been like if some higher-entity messed with their cosmic life-simulator by randomly exposing us to a ChatGPT-generated sub-plot!

We need ranked choice voting and proportional representation in Congress. Election law must be changed so it doesn't protect the corrupt 2-party duopoly and, instead, allows ALL nationally registered political party candidates access to every ballot.

Should just make it illegal to buy a political ad on a media page -- and define political as specifically designed to promote a person seeking a political office or driving a political cause/party platform. It's the fact that corporations can make money by promoting political content that has driven this insane world. We can't just "stop doing it", as much as I wish we could. We need to give corporations a reason to stop delivering this information. News media, online media, etc. If people want to produce political ads, they should maintain their own website and promote it themselves, rather than having it promoted for them via ad buys on social media networks and news media networks.

Elections cost so much because corporations charge so much for ads, and 24 hour news channels count on the neverending election cycle. Make them shorter and cheaper! I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted

What is the size of the Election Sector? What’s the annual stats on the Election Market?

isn't the reason for free education a smart electorate

Not full episode!? 😢😢

It sounds like a good idea. But, (here comes the pragmatist in my head) before we can move into a future of "the people rule the government" rather than the other way around - the public is going to have to take their roll in that marriage serious. Robert Heinlein preached about this in his sci-fi novel Starship Troopers.

RankTheVote

Once citizens united passed, we lost the ability to get rid of citizens united. Do you think they’ll let you take that power away? There isn’t enough political will in anyone on Capitol Hill to fight the “money in their pockets” control that’s strangling our country.

Another Suggestion: Enforce the existing laws properly. There are some there and on paper they are not that bad but noone is enforcing them because most of them are guilty breaking them.

This conversation like many I keep seeing/hearing is literally EXACTLY the stuff I’ve been hearing from Kennedy. When he announced his Independent move in Philly last year, he brought up these exact subjects. He even said what Eugene just said about how politicians feel & talk behind closed doors. Why the feck don’t people take him more seriously? Are we really so narrow minded that disagreeing with his stances on issues like vaccines eliminates all his credibility? Seriously. There are way more immediate & serious stances where the Dems & GOP are completely off base. I just don’t understand how people can’t get past the one or two “crazy” positions he may have when literally 80-90% of what he’s proposing is what everyone else says the Dems & GOP are not doing right. It’s literally insane to not take him seriously after all the times what he says has been proven correct.

Is this the full episode..?

Is this in the Constitution?

The filibuster means no government can achieve much

Jon Stewart and Doris Kearns Goodwin would be a good team for a co-President system. Let's do it if it's something they agree about. Let's keep talking if they disagree. But the current system has a President and vice-President. So, who should lead the ticket? Maybe whoever polls better, so there is a greater chance of success. What would a head-to-head poll show, comparing Goodwin-Stewart w/ Trump-Vance? Or Stewart-Goodwin vs. Trump-Vance?

The MEDIA ... who has much say, in the matter ... will fight the shorter campaign situation. They could never make the kind of $$$$$$$$$$$$$, that the long-range campaign system offers.

Replace congress with an app.

If you live in Tennessee vote for Courtney Johnston for Congress we don’t need Andy oggles in office

Oh electoral.. good morning everybody 😅

Still think jon Stewart would make a better candidate for president

Hello Fellow Humans, It is really easy to fix. Take money out of politics and make it only 8-12 weeks long. Make all ads free during a show and each network has to play back to back a 30 second Republican and Democrat political ad. This way all ads have both views being played in all channels. During the 8-12 weeks only and it is only 30 seconds each during each break.

is that Lionel Richie?

The constant barrage of attack ads always piss me off. Stop telling me the other guy is the scum of the earth. Tell me what *you* are going to do to make things better, and show me you have an actual plan how to do it.

Yessss. Please make these election seasons shorter. I hate them.

US really would need at least a 3rd real party..

You have to vote every 2 years.

What world are these three living in? Oh yes, the one where you have money in the bank, health insurance, and get paid to talk. Hell, I bet they have vaca homes.

DNC, where democracy goes to die

Jon stewart was partially guilty in creating the political hobbyists that crwate this market in the first place. Kind of interesting to see him decry it now after making his fortune while saying nothing about his own part in this mess.

Doris looks high af.😊

I'll say it before and I'll say it again, Jon needs to STFU or run for office. If he doesnt like the way things work he is one of the few people I think could get elected and actually change them.

I'm afraid you need to run for president to make it happen.

Doris is brat (I don't know what that means)

Sorry, but Goodwin is living in a world of rainbows, bunnies, and prancing baby deer in a velvety forest. None of these things will change, but they will rather get worse. Yet, YET, there is a small part of me that likes to believe that we can correct these things that Stewart rattled off. But there seems no chance that it will happen because MONEY DRIVES EVERYTHING in this country.

RFK 2024🇺🇸 Just say no to the status quo!

Please listen, this will not get better. Don't be naive, you need to learn to defend yourselves, if you wait to the last minute it will be too late. Your talk about "fixing" things is a fantasy reserved for children, the real world will get much, much worse.

Fasha.

I have zero time for men with nail polish . Shove it up your as