TV host Bill Maher is increasingly isolated on the left simply for being a reasonable person. You may disagree with his politics, and he probably disagrees with yours, but at least you could have a civil conversation with him about your differences. Instead of simply screaming ‘Racist! Transphobe! Islamophobe!’, Maher seems like the sort of guy who’d politely say, ‘Well, yes, but…’ Even, astonishingly, ‘You might have a point…’
For that, he constantly takes flak from his fellow leftists. Ben Affleck screeched “Gross and kinda racist!” when Maher hosted Sam Harris, criticising Islamic violence. The pushback got truly deranged when Maher accepted an invitation to dinner with President Trump and concluded, ‘Y’know, he’s not anything like people make out’.
Now, Maher is one of the few lefty talking heads to openly admit what a complete shitshow the Democratic Party has become. From swivel-eyed Muslims, to drooling groomers, to open communists, the Democrats have ’em all. Especially communists.
If that sounds like 1950s-era paranoia, don’t take his or my word for it, just ask the Democrats themselves.
Not a week goes by where I don’t read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party, and then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy comes out.
Again, let’s just read the quotes. The DSA platform says, “You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.” If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum, from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs, they’d be sued for plagiarism.
Lest anyone still doubt, New York’s Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, tweeted Marx’s words exactly. His top aide, Cea Weaver, openly declared the government’s “sacred right to seize property” and the need to impoverish the white middle class. One newly minted Democratic candidate, Darializa Chevalier, wants to seize all landlord properties and “seize the means of production”.
Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but that’s communism. That’s communism, which we tried and it doesn’t work.
They haven’t said anything about liquidating the kulaks yet, but give them time.
“Our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated, classless society, in a word, communism.”
No, that’s not a smear cooked up by some Bircher nutbar, it’s the stated aim of the Marxist Unity Group now ascendant inside the DSA. Five years ago the organisation still pretended to shun actual communists. That pretence is gone. Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, openly laments the fall of the Soviet Union and Mao’s China. These people are not hiding. They are running and winning Democratic primaries.
Trying manfully to dispel any idea that the Democrats are now fully-fledged communists, last month two Democratic congressmen floated a simple pledge: “We are capitalist, not socialist. We want safety, not lawlessness. We are proud, not ashamed of America.” Eight colleagues signed it. Eight out of 212. The rest apparently found those sentiments too extreme.
James Carville, the ultimate Democratic operative, has had enough: “I’m done. I’m not in that political party.” Gavin Newsom, naturally, calls it a “big tent”. Maher’s reply is characteristically blunt:
Well, you know what else you find in a tent? Clowns.
The left’s problem is no longer that Bill Maher sometimes notices reality. The problem is that reality keeps noticing them back. When open communists, border abolitionists and prison abolitionists are treated as the exciting new face of the Democrats, the party has not been captured by the far left. It has simply stopped pretending the far left is far.
Just to really ram the point home harder than a Democrat donor with xe/xir hands on Jeffrey Epstein’s bedtime reading, here’s the Democrat line up, going into the mid-terms:
There’s Francesca Hong, a diagnosed-bipolar Asian woman with a history of self-harm who’s been institutionalised in a psychiatric ward and overdosed on lithium and wants to get rid of Thanksgiving. Now, lest you think I’m disparaging the mentally ill, Hong is also an open racist, who proudly tweets that she made her kids leave their burgers when she saw how many white people were in the diner.
Abdul El-Sayed: A Muslim, linked to terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood, and strongly linked to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, officially designated by Texas as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and transnational criminal syndicate. His wife and father-in-law also have terrorist connections. Just so there’s no doubt, he also opines that “America deserved 9/11”.
Then there’s Darializa Avila Chevalier, who has publicly called the United States a “f*cking disgrace”, and wants to abolish borders, law enforcement and prisons.
None of those hold (or insert) a candle, though, to California State Senator Scott Wiener (some jokes just write themselves). Wiener by name and nature, he has attended a San Francisco public ‘kink event’ where the big attraction is ‘piss play’: grown men squatting in kiddie pools and getting urinated on. Weiner, who openly parades in fetish gear in public, is most infamous for lowering the age of consent for men to have sex with boys as young as 12, decriminalising knowingly infecting others with AIDS and supporting convicted paedophiles to run for school boards.
I would vote for Sarah Palin before this. She’s a bimbo, but if you asked her to come up with something she likes about America, she could do it. You betcha.
And it wouldn’t be piss play or paedophiles running schools.
