Bill Maher just endorsed Bernie Sanders!
Bill Maher just endorsed Bernie Sanders, explains how he makes GOP “heads explode”
ill Maher apparently had a great time with Bernie Sanders on Friday night’s Real Time because he unofficially indicated he was behind the Vermont Senator’s bid for President.
In the first segment of the show, Maher greeted Sanders by saying “I want to help your campaign. I want to see you get the nomination. I want to see you be president.” One hell of a way to start out an interview. The conversation quickly turned into the two nerding out over Sanders’ brand of “democratic socialism” and the funding model for of some of Sanders’ political agenda.
“My question for you is the word ‘socialist’ — I want to get right to this,” Maher said. “Because I want to help your campaign, I want to see you get the nomination, [so] we have to teach Americans what this is … I don’t think most Americans realize that they’re already socialists.”
Sanders said that most Americans need to better understand the what democratic socialists like himself aim to achieve. “We want to deal with grotesque level of income inequality in America,” he said. “On every one of the major issues I am talking about, the American people agree.” His examples were free public college tuition and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
Maher went on to agree but said that Republicans can’t understand what they call socialism as a problem solver. He continued that the way Sanders must explain to Americans what he’s talking about is to point out the things we already have that are working:
“Socialism is the programs they already like. They like Social Security. That’s socialism. They like Medicare. They like the VA. They like the military. It’s already a socialist country. … We have to un-demonize that word. … [The number of people who say they’d vote for a socialist] is at the bottom [of the list] — they hear ‘socialist,’ they hear ‘herpes,’ Bernie!”
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/17/bill_maher_just_endorsed_bernie_sanders_explains_how_he_makes_gop_heads_explode/
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