True liberal Bill Maher is really getting fed up with the radical progressive left. We’ve covered his previous observations here at LI, but this one is spot-on and Maher has outdone himself in conveying historical lessons that today’s wokesters conveniently ignore (or worse, emulate).
Watch the whole segment, you won’t be sorry.
Maher turned serious during his New Rules editorial, noting how the woke are trying to reinvent the very nature of human beings. He talked about the Red Guard movement in China, where people would attack those accused of not toeing the ideological line, making them wear dunce caps and publicly shaming them. Such tactics, Maher said, were an attempt to change things by screaming at it, a problem then — and now, again, becoming more and more a fact of life here in the US. . . . . That was the modern version of what the Red Guard was doing. “If you can’t see the similarities between (Kilborn) and that, the person who needs reeducation is you,” Maher said.He wrapped up his editorial by pointing out how Winston Marshall, the former banjo player of Mumord & Sons, was forced to step away from the band and issue a cringing apology for endorsing a controversial book.“Pain from a book?” Maher asked. “Not unless he hit the drummer over the head with it.”Maher likened that situation to John Lennon’s song “Revolution,” which called out people who carried pictures of Chairman Mao, and “ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.”“There was a guy who understood how good intentions could turn,” Maher said.
After watching the Maher clip, I wanted to watch a video of the Beatles singing “Revolution,” and it’s not hard to hear their warning to the idealistic lefties of the ’60s not to turn into destructive self-righteous zealots trying to remake humanity with “minds that hate.”
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all love to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free your mind instead
(Shooby-doo-wah, oh, shooby-doo-wah)
[Pre-Chorus]
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Meanwhile, Joe “I am the Democratic Party” Biden has surrounded himself with Mao-worshiping advisors like Anita Dunn who was forced out of the Obama administration for fan-girling over the genocidal Chinese communist leader.
Progressives here in America have always been about perfecting human nature, about “progressing” toward a more perfect human and thus a more perfect world.
From prohibition to eugenics to abortion, the goal was to found/create and then nurture some superior human race, one with no unwanted basic human qualities like selfishness, jealousy, hate, drunkenness, or any number of “inferior” qualities of the many they noted and tried to eradicate.
Today’s progressives are emulating Mao’s Red Revolution in many undeniable ways, but the roots of their desire to improve on God’s creation of man can be traced further back and in our own nation’s history.
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