{"id":19097,"date":"2022-06-05T21:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=19097"},"modified":"2022-06-05T21:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:48:41","slug":"bill-maher-as-a-barometer-of-the-center-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/05\/bill-maher-as-a-barometer-of-the-center-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher as a Barometer of the Center Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher is a comedian who made his fortune with two talk shows, Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher.\u00a0 Maher calls himself a liberal but a realist.\u00a0 He also claims to hate hypocrisy.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019ll let that go.\u00a0 Suffice it to say that his favorite targets down through the decades have always been traditionalists and other conservatives.\u00a0 He has made a very good living extolling Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and vilifying all Republicans and especially Donald Trump.\u00a0 But for at least the last year or so Maher has been calling out the more insane actions of the Left.\u00a0 In recent days he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/05\/22\/bill_maher_on_trans_kids_were_literally_experimenting_on_children_weighing_trade-offs_is_not_bigotry.html\">highlighted the danger of assuming that young children should be allowed to decide they want to have surgeries and hormone therapies to change their sex<\/a>.\u00a0 He has derided the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/06\/04\/maher_toxic_positivity_and_the_lack_of_shame_and_judgment_has_led_to_the_decline_of_civilization.html\">\u00a0homeless policies in California that have left the streets littered with human feces and deranged drug addicts and he has mocked the positivity campaign that tells heroin and methamphetamine addicts not to feel shame about their addictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, is Bill Maher suddenly a champion of the Right?\u00a0 No, he\u2019s still the same liberal mush head he always was.\u00a0 But what he\u2019s noticed is that his audience, the Center-Left, feels alienated by what their politicians are letting the Woke do to the country.\u00a0 This audience is all the people who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and hate Donald Trump and voted for Joe Biden to \u201cget things back to normal.\u201d\u00a0 But instead of normal, their homes in the cities are besieged by criminals and homeless drug addicts (if there is a difference) and their children are being encouraged to think they are \u201ctrans\u201d and should have their sex organs amputated.\u00a0 And just to top things off the cost of living is draining their life savings, minute by minute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What this tells me is that the voting base of the Democrat party is scared and even if they can\u2019t fire Dementia Joe this November, they can take away his Congress.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what they intend to do.\u00a0 And they are certainly receptive to a message by someone who can convince them he has a plan to fix things.\u00a0 The only problem is the one person they won\u2019t listen to is Donald Trump.\u00a0 If they were forced to vote for Trump their heads would explode.\u00a0 Especially the women.\u00a0 So, are we at an impasse?\u00a0 No, I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 All these people need to vote Republican is a VP candidate who isn\u2019t Donald Trump to give them a narrative that what they\u2019re really voting for is the future.\u00a0 And I think that\u2019s where Ron DeSantis comes in.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is perceived as a smart, savvy leader who gets hard things done.\u00a0 And he doesn\u2019t have Trump\u2019s baggage.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t particularly irk women.\u00a0 He isn\u2019t as brash.\u00a0 And he knows quite a bit about building a governing team.\u00a0 So, what needs to happen is, earlier rather than later, Trump and DeSantis need to work out a strategy to let both of them work to their strengths and in that way hijack the whole center-left of the electorate in 2024.\u00a0 Of course, it won\u2019t be a permanent shift.\u00a0 Liberals don\u2019t belong in the Republican party.\u00a0 As soon as the Woke have been disenfranchised and Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden and have been packed off to nursing homes, some new Obama clone will be exciting the center-left with claims of fiscally responsible compassion or some such nonsense.\u00a0 But if we can manage to win in 2024, we\u2019ll have a shot at trying to bring back some semblance of lawful government.\u00a0 But how we do that is a story for another day.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s quite a lot of tea leaves reading from just watching a few clips of the Bill Maher show.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m not a pundit for nothing, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher is a comedian who made his fortune with two talk shows, Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher.\u00a0 Maher calls himself 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