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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher is becoming an insufferable clown. [View all]Sympthsical
(8,932 posts)Between Maher and anything on cable news, I wish people would blink or something to let us know if they're being forced to watch these programs.
I think Maher gets heat in the way that most heretics do. He's a liberal, but if he goes outside of the prevailing dogma, he needs to be burned at the stake. This is why we get tons of posts about him, but zero about someone like, say, Greg Gutfield.
It's an odd human psychological impulse to punish those within the group until they either break and return to conformity or are cast out and ostracized. Outside the group? Who cares.
We see it in most religions, but any ideology will do. It's not only Maher, of course. Look at anyone on the Left that doesn't toe the line. They're attacked more viciously and more frequently by some people than any right-winger.
Susan Sarandon's like their head witch at this point.
Which I will never not find fucking hilarious.