Behind the Scenes with Jon Stewart

"Ten years from now a Republican may look progressive. But I never think that things are intransigent. A guy on the floor of the Senate once beat another senator with a cane. We were in a civil war over slavery. The country began in a revolution, grew through a removal of a native people, enslaved a whole other group of people – and now our big culture battle is whether or not gay people can marry. That is a remarkable achievement as a society. If that doesn’t speak of the progress of a nation, I don’t know what does."