As of late, popular comedian and pundit Bill Maher has made clear he’s fed up with the way that many people on the Left are behaving.
Maher recently made an appearance on fellow stand-up comedian Joe Rogan’s popular Spotify podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.
The pair discussed a wide range of topics.
During the episode, Maher brought up the way that the woke Left has departed from the liberalism of the past.
In doing so, he put a bright spotlight on why Democrats have seemingly elevated people like White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to positions of power, despite what many cast as their total incompetence.
He said many leftists no longer support the idea of a “colorblind society,” but instead have become much too extreme, and they now share similarities with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Responding to Maher, Joe Rogan said, “You’re like liberals back when they were more reasonable before they became leftists. And now every liberal kind of has to be a leftist. If you want to be on the team, you’ve got to subscribe to the most fringe ideas that the team is promoting.”
Maher explained that the idea of being “liberal” is different from being “woke,” saying that they depart on issues like identity politics and political correctness.
He also said that woke people can hold onto their beliefs, but they shouldn’t be welcome under the liberal label.
“You can be woke, with all the nonsense that that now implies, but don’t say that somehow it’s an extension of liberalism. Because it’s most often actually an undoing of liberalism. You can have your points of view and your positions on these things but don’t try and piggyback on what I always believe,” said Maher.
He continued, “I have always believed, as liberals do for example, in a colorblind society. That the goal is not to see race at all, anywhere, for any reason. That’s what liberals always believed all the way through Obama, going back [to] Kennedy, everybody, Martin Luther King. That’s not what the woke believe.”
Maher told Rogan that holding certain beliefs about race means that the woke Left has more in common with white supremacist organizations like the KKK instead of actual liberalism.
“They believe race is first and foremost the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan. Again, you can have that position, but don’t say that’s a liberal position. You’re doing something very different,” said Maher.
Back in May, Maher called out the woke craziness being promoted at the university level and how it has departed from traditional liberalism.
Speaking to Tv’s Dr. Phil McGraw, Maher discussed the new types of degrees that colleges are now offering, calling them “insane and indoctrinated.”
“This is my thing with liberals and woke, carry on believing whatever the f*ck you want, just don’t claim you’re some kind of advanced liberal. You’re the opposite of liberal. Liberals are the ones who came up with the term ‘homelessness’ so that people wouldn’t call them ‘bums’ and ‘vagrants’ and ‘hobos,’” he told McGraw.
“Then they came along and said, ‘That’s not good enough. Actually, you people are the problem. It’s people experiencing homelessness,’” he said.
Don’t count on Democrats like Karine Jean-Pierre to have any good response to Maher’s charges – a view that many Americans see as completely true.
More people like Bill Maher should continue to speak up and speak out against the insanity of woke culture before things spiral even further out of control.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
