{"id":284766,"date":"2021-06-26T15:26:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T12:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-maher-may-be-the-only-one-who-can-save-the-left-from-itself\/"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T12:26:53","slug":"bill-maher-may-be-the-only-one-who-can-save-the-left-from-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-maher-may-be-the-only-one-who-can-save-the-left-from-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill Maher may be the only one who can save the left from itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill Maher may be the only one who can save the left from itself<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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One day in 2019 while sitting in my LA home, I received a call from a familiar voice who said Bill could meet us at the Polo Lounge on Friday after his show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBill, who?\u201d I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBill Maher,\u201d responded Ann Coulter. \u201cRemember our discussion earlier in the week?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

I had forgotten she mentioned us having dinner with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As we waited for Maher to arrive, I already felt a rush of excitement from the robust conversation I knew we would have. And robust it was. If you could have been a fly on the wall and heard this conversation, you may have been shocked to learn how reasonable Maher is on some issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I know what you are probably thinking: Bill Maher is reasonable?\u00a0<\/p>\n

After all, this is the guy who has made a career of beating up on Republicans weekly, not to mention questioning values like faith in God.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet, despite all this, it app<\/a>ears Maher, host of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d has become the most prominent voice of reason on the left \u2014 at a time when there doesn\u2019t seem to be many reasonable voices on the left at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently Maher spoke out<\/a> against those who allege America has made no progress toward racial reconciliation. He used the term \u201cprogressophobia,\u201d calling it \u201ca brain disorder that strikes liberals and makes them incapable of recognizing progress. It\u2019s like situational blindness, only what you can\u2019t see is that your dorm in 2021 is better than the South before the Civil War.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bill Maher regularly engages people with opposing views like conservative pundit Ann Coulter.<\/figcaption>
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Maher is absolutely correct. The notion that America has made no progress toward a more perfect union is an absurd, false narrative. Yet the left, especially the Democratic Party, continues to push this poison on the American people. It seems the Democrats would, contrary to their rhetoric, rather keep the lie going to lock in a permanent base of African-American voters than tell the truth and seek national unity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I discuss such hypocrisy of the Democratic Party regarding race in America with NFL Super Bowl winner and Republican Rep. Burgess Owens on a recent episode of my podcast, \u201cOutloud with Gianno Caldwell<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his important diatribe against progressivism run amok, Maher even goes after fellow comedia<\/a>n Kevin Hart, who is arguably the biggest star in the business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a recurrent theme on the far left that things have never been worse!\u201d Maher exclaimed. \u201cKevin Hart expressed a view many hold when he told the New York Times, \u2018You\u2019re witnessing white power and white privilege at an all-time high.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Maher shocked people when he defended Florida\u2019s GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying he got it right on COVID.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThis is one of the big problems with wokeness,\u201d Maher continued<\/a>, \u201cthat what you say doesn\u2019t have to make sense or jive with the facts or even be challenged lest the challenge be conflated with racism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the first time Maher attacked his own side. Back in April, Maher shocked people when he defended Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, from the media and the Democratic Party. In a segment on his HBO talk show, Maher said DeSantis is \u201ca voracious consumer of the scientific literature\u201d who got it right on COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd maybe that\u2019s why he protected his most vulnerable population, the elderly, way better than did the governor of New York,\u201d Maher added<\/a>, knocking New York\u2019s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo. \u201cThose are just facts; I know it\u2019s irresponsible of me to say them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maher may be a staunch liberal, but he\u2019s a voice of reason on the left, unafraid to call out wokeness run amok. If the above moments don\u2019t convince you, check out his take on progressives\u2019 push for free college.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that free college is a left-wing thing, but is it really liberal for someone who doesn\u2019t go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?\u201d Maher asked<\/a>. \u201cEspecially since colleges have turned into giant luxury day care centers with overpaid babysitters anxious to indulge every student whim.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When Lin-Manuel Miranda took heat for a lack of minority representation in his new film, Maher clapped back: \u201cYou\u2019re the guy who made the founding fathers black and Hispanic! I don\u2019t think you have to apologize to Twitter.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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You may wonder why Maher has taken such a turn against his party and the media. Here\u2019s one answer: He\u2019s staunchly politically incorrect. Indeed, in an interview with Jordan Peterson, Maher said political correctness is the elevation of sensitivity over truth. He\u2019s right again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I hope the left is listening, because Maher seems to be the only major voice on the left that still believes in common sense on several issues \u2014 even in the face of cancel culture, which he rightly views as ridiculous and stupid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last weekend Maher made another excellent point about director Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, was slammed on Twitter because the cast of his movie, \u201cIn the Heights,\u201d about the Washington Heights area of New York City, did not represent the Afro-Latinx community. After Miranda issued a long, agonized apology, Maher clapped back: \u201cYou\u2019re the guy who made the founding fathers black and Hispanic! I don\u2019t think you have to apologize to Twitter.\u201d Maher said he doesn\u2019t think Miranda really believes an apology is in order but \u201che just wants to avoid the news<\/a> cycle, and I don\u2019t blame him,\u201d adding, \u201cThis is why people hate Democrats; It\u2019s cringey.\u201d Once again, Maher couldn\u2019t be more correct in his assertion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To be clear, Maher gets it wrong plenty of times, from Russiagate<\/a> to his criticism<\/a> of Sen. Joe Manchin, who is apparently the only Democrat in the Senate who believes bipartisanship should be more than a talking point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But looking at the big picture, I have concluded that Bill Maher is the only person who can save the left from itself. Whether Democrats heed Maher\u2019s warnings or continue their descent into woke madness remains an open question.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gianno Caldwell is a Fox News Political Analyst<\/a> and the author of \u201cTaken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed<\/a>\u201d (Crown Forum), out now.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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