Bill Maher made it clear how he feels about the “lunatics” within the Democratic Party in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Saturday.
When asked why he makes fun of the left more than before, he replied: “You’re right, because it gives me more material. I’m a comedian. I’ll go where the gold is.” Maher expanded on his comedy, adding, “I think humor is one of the best ways to get to the truth, maybe the best, especially in politics,” and that “When someone laughs, it’s involuntary. So that you can make the audience agree that they agree with you even if they really don’t want to.”
The interviewer responded by saying “But wakefulness doesn’t always laugh.” Maher agreed, replying: “That’s one of the issues I have with the left. They can’t bear to stand a moment to listen to something they don’t agree with. Not that the right doesn’t do it, but the left does it worse.”
Maher also touched on how his liberal friends can’t stand the fact that he invites conservative guests, like Ann Coulter, onto his show. “I had liberal friends who couldn’t stand it. Just think what that is,” Bill pauses dramatically, “these are the people who hate me for who I won’t hate,” repeating again, “People who hate me for who I won’t hate.”
After being asked: “Why do people on the left find it impossible to be nice to those they disagree with?” Maher responded, saying: “It’s in their psychological profile, they just have this need for virtue signaling and for their friends – and I think everyone on social media – to think of them as the good people. ‘We are the good people. We know who is good. And it’s us.”
With much speculation about whether Maher is considering switching parties, Maher shot down the notion, stating, “A lot of Republicans say, ‘Maybe we can get Bill Maher.’ No, you can’t. What you can get is Bill Maher being honest to the left. I will not join your team that does not believe in democracy.”
Although he doesn’t plan to switch parties himself, Maher noted that there are voters who “are not particularly enamored with Trump, are not blind to his many flaws, but they just think that the lunatic on the left is kind of worse. I don’t agree with them, but I understand. I don’t hate them for voting for him.”
Maher also had some choice words for the younger generation, where one of his problems with them was “that they have no idea, no perspective. Of course, if they’ve gone to elite universities, eg, factory ah-, they’ve been indoctrinated into this idea that they live in the worst place in the world at the worst time in history, when in fact they live in , with all our flaws, still probably the best, arguably the best time in history.”
While Maher believes what the country needs is a metaphorical “colony,” he adds that he “likes America” and that “America doesn’t need a revolution,” contrary to what some on the political fringes believe.
He believes Republicans will dominate Democrats in elections as long as the Democratic Party fails to “convince itself that it’s this misunderstood vehicle for what people really want,” adding, “They often say, when they lose an election, “We did it” don’t get our message out.’ Yes you did. They just didn’t like it. You knew it loud and clear.”
In the final statement of Maher’s interview, as if addressing Vice President Kamala Harris himself, he declared: “You lost a crazy race to a crazy person. Congratulations.”
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