{"id":1206016,"date":"2022-01-10T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T01:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1206016"},"modified":"2022-01-10T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T01:19:57","slug":"its-half-the-country-bill-maher-explains-why-he-cant-get-behind-hating-trump-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-half-the-country-bill-maher-explains-why-he-cant-get-behind-hating-trump-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Half The Country\u2019: Bill Maher Explains Why He Can\u2019t Get Behind Hating Trump Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-half-the-country-bill-maher-explains-why-he-cant-get-behind-hating-trump-voters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1206016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Comedian Bill Maher, currently touring in the southern United States, explained that he can never write off former President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters because he\u2019d have to hate \u201chalf the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2022\/01\/bill-maher-on-why-he-actually-loves-red-states-and-why-democracy-is-in-big-trouble.html\">AL.com<\/a> just ahead of the first anniversary of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-predicts-dems-will-get-thumped-in-2022-biden-hasnt-exactly-stuck-the-landing\/\">Maher<\/a> said that he believed American democracy was coming to a crossroads. \u201cJanuary 2025 is going to be where the rubber hits the road in this country. We\u2019ve been heading towards this cliff for a very long time, and we always think we\u2019re the country where it can\u2019t happen. Well, we thought that about terrorism. We thought that about everything. We\u2019re not exempt. We are the country where it can happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-liberal-media-scared-s-out-of-people-over-covid-democrats-afraid-to-leave-home\/\">Maher<\/a> addressed a series of questions in the interview \u2014 from political correctness in comedy to Twitter banning Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/twitter-permanently-boots-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-vaccine-misinformation\/\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> (R-GA) \u2014 and he explained why he loves performing in red states, particularly in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis country is falling apart at the seams. Half the people are not going to self-deport. You see these tweets and memes about owning and destroying the other side. Get over it. You\u2019re not owning or destroying anybody. No one\u2019s going anywhere. We have to learn to live together again,\u201d Maher explained, saying that people seemed more willing to accept that in red states. \u201cSan Francisco, that\u2019s going to be a little problematic for me. They\u2019re a little too politically correct. There\u2019s going to be a lot of groaning at some of the things I say, and that\u2019s not what a comedy show is supposed to be. Political correctness has always been the enemy of comedy. That\u2019s been my banner from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the interview:<\/p>\n<p id=\"CDW3IS4TXNCHTABT7QVL3YBDTA\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\"><em>You\u2019re hitting a lot of Southern cities on this tour: Birmingham, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Jacksonville. You\u2019ve said, during COVID, it\u2019s harder to sell tickets in blue states, that liberal media are scaring people with their coverage, but \u201cIn red states, it\u2019s all good to go\u201d and people there are maybe more open to edgier humor. What do you like about performing in the South, and if anything, what surprises you about Southern audiences?<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"KH32CAJFZRDIVJLR7TY25KKWHY\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\"><em>Bill Maher: I think you kinda just did my act for me there, all the things you mentioned. I attract mostly a liberal crowd, but liberal is different than woke. To me, woke, if we want to use that broad term, is something that is not an extension of liberalism. It\u2019s very often the opposite of what an old school liberal like me believes. I\u2019ve never been someone who was part of any specific party, per se. I usually vote Democratic, but it depends on the person. Certainly in the age of Trump, they\u2019re never going to get me there with the Republicans. But there are many Republicans who are not Trump Republicans. And they have a good point, that there is that faction of the left that we will call woke who\u2019s gone of the deep end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"WPYSLHOF65GMVH2ASLDBZ2UERI\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\"><em>You\u2019ve talked about how it\u2019s dangerous when we see people on the other side literally as the enemy, that we\u2019re living in a \u201cpartisan hell\u201d where trying to convince people to believe what you believe doesn\u2019t work. When you were a kid, the adults never talked politics. It was considered impolite. But these days, when it\u2019s oft-discussed and gets very impolite, how do you think we can tone it down the tribalism and ugliness?<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"SZVKHWNIC5HDDDXFCPX35V5ZCQ\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\"><em><strong>Maher: <\/strong>You\u2019re right. That is a theme I\u2019ve hit many times, that we shouldn\u2019t talk about it all the time. Facebook is the great example of that. Facebook, when it started was not political. It was just about sharing your photographs and talking about who got fat from high school days. It was your high school yearbook come to life. It was humble brags and cat pictures. Then it became arguing with some kid you were in chem lab with about ivermectin or the Supreme Court, or whatever. And this idea that we have to constantly be arguing politics with everybody \u2014 that\u2019s what has to stop. Because when you take the politics out of the discussion \u2014 and this is coming from a person who made his living talking politics \u2014 you find that people are just people, and you can\u2019t hate them. I constantly say it, you can hate Trump. You can\u2019t hate all the people who like him \u2014 it\u2019s half the country. And you can\u2019t set yourself up as some sort of superior moral paragon, because this is your&nbsp;political belief, and somebody else has another one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maher went on to defend Greene after her suspension from Twitter, arguing that if she was going to say something crazy on a public platform, the response should be for other people to call that out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the answer to bad speech is more speech. 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