This week Bill Maher’s comedy/news bit on “Real Time” mourns the lack of bipartisanship in American politics—something that was once admired but now is denigrated. His two examples of how both parties contributed to improving society involve drugs—the dramatic decrease of death from street drugs like fentanyl as well as the price drops in widely-used prescription drugs. Maher argues that this wasn’t due to deliberate collaboration between the Dems and GOP, but was “accidental bipartisanship”:each party independently did things that contributed to the overall welfare.
People aren’t going to be happy with Maher saying that the GOP did anything worthwhile, though.
The guests you see on the panel are the journalists Jonathan Swan and James Kirchick.
The silence after his line about coming together in a place called “Congress” is SO depressing. And this is Bill Maher’s audience, who I suspect tend to be better educated than the average American.
A low bar, it seems.
“People aren’t going to be happy with Maher saying that the GOP did anything worthwhile, though.” What does that tell us about ourselves and the people many of us hang with? In my case, it reaffirms my seven-year-old refrain of “People are stupid.” My adult addendum: “including me, damn it, but not on this issue.”
I’ve got to disagree with Maher about Trump being a bad ass. The vibe I get from him is someone who desperately wants to be a bully but is terrified of doing it himself.