Bill Maher's TDS

Who really cares about the poor? It's certainly not Bill Maher and his audience of lefty progressives, and they both admit it - Maher explicitly and his audience implicitly. During his HBO show last Friday night Maher delivered himself of two very foolish comments, one of which was simply dumb the second of which was cruel. Katherine Timpf describes the first foolish comment:

“I don’t know if we’re a western democracy anymore,” claimed Maher. “One of their big issues [at G7] is democracy. It’s in trouble, and Russia is meddling in all of them. These are issues he [Trump] doesn’t care about or is actively working against.”

“He wants to be king,” the comedian continued. “I keep saying: slow-moving coup. I’ve been saying it since before the election. Macron tweeted ‘nobody is forever’ about Trump yesterday. That was his burn. I’m sorry, but dictators are.”

What Maher doesn't seem to understand is that an aspiring dictator does not behave the way President Trump has behaved. Would-be dictators do not disperse power to local governments, they don't deregulate businesses. Rather, they arrogate power to themselves by stripping it from the people, and they enact laws that give the central government, i.e. themselves, more and more control over people's lives.

This is precisely the opposite of what Trump has done. By overturning most of President Obama's executive orders President Trump has devolved power from the executive branch back to local governments and individual citizens. By appointing numerous conservatives to the federal district and appeals courts he has acted to ensure that the Constitution will remain the law of the land and that policy will not be determined by the ideological preferences of solitary judges imposing their views on the rest of us by usurping the authority of the legislature.

So Maher's first comment was just dumb. The second comment was not only dumb but cruel. Here's Timpf again:

Maher asked guest Shermichael Singleton his opinion of the economy during a panel discussion. Singleton said, “It’s going well. For now.” This led perfectly into Maher’s bombshell remark. “Thank you, that’s my question,” Maher added. “I feel like the bottom [of the economy] has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it.”

“I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.”

When Maher uttered this remark his audience applauded. Why? Do these people think about what they're cheering for or are they just mind-numbed automatons who hoot and whistle like the offspring of five generations of incestuous marriages whenever Maher says something stupid?

Do they realize how much a recession hurts people, especially the poor? Do they care? Evidently not. For these people, being liberal apparently means that you only have to pretend that you care about the poor. You don't actually have to be sincere about it.

As Timpf says:

It doesn’t get more deranged than that, does it? A wealthy Hollywood elitist is hoping for the bottom to fall out of the economy and an economic crash. “Sorry if that hurts people” is the most disgusting part of the whole ugly diatribe. Many families are still recovering from the long drawn out Great Recession which began in 2008 as lifetime savings were wiped out and jobs were lost. Now, in order to get rid of President Trump, he would like a repeat of that.

Maher and his ilk hate Trump more than they love their fellow Americans. As he laments western democracy in America he fails to recognize that it is a western democracy that keeps our American elections in place and provides him with the right to criticize the president for a living. The man cannot accept the result of the last presidential election and it has crippled him. Those audience members who applaud such political discourse should check themselves, too. Do they wish the same pain, even upon themselves?

Well, no, not upon themselves, of course, but if others are hurt that's just the price that has to be paid to get rid of a president who has achieved the best unemployment numbers for the poor in history and the best economic growth in a generation. But who cares about that, Maher and his audience ask, what matters is that we preserve our democracy by ousting the man who is actually saving it.

This is the logic of the left. and it's symptomatic of psychological derangement. It's a symptom of the corrosive effect of pure hatred on a person's heart, soul, and mind.