Bill Maher Delivers a Hilarious Cautionary Tale on the Failure of Countries Moving Left

Comedians on the left seem to have stopped being funny, in the interests of being political.

One of the few people on the left who is still funny, while being liberal, is Bill Maher. Perhaps that's because, while he still has his foot in his TDS, he can clearly see a lot of the problems and the harm from the radical left and the woke movement.

Maher did a great, funny "New Rule" bit on Friday's "Real Time" titled, "Whoa, Canada," but it was a cautionary tale to us about the harm that happens to your country when you go too far left, chastising the left here. "They say in politics, liberals are the gas pedal, and conservatives are the brakes, and I'm generally with the gas pedal, but not if we're driving off a cliff," he declared, explaining how we should learn from the problems of Canada and other liberal countries.

They say in politics, liberals are the gas pedal, and conservatives are the brakes, and I'm generally with the gas pedal, but not if we're driving off a cliff. pic.twitter.com/hutj3OUVQi
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 13, 2024

"Canada was where all the treasured goals of liberalism worked perfectly. It was like NPR come to life," Maher joked. "But with poutine." It was a "giant....blue state."

"Canada was where every woke white college kid wearing pajama pants outdoors, who'd had it up to here with America's racist patriarchy, dreamt of living someday. I mean, besides Gaza."

Yet, what is the reality? Everything isn't better in Canada.

He pointed out how our unemployment is at 3.8 percent and their number is at 6.1 percent. He said they added 1.3 million "migrants" in a year, equivalent to us adding more than 11 million, and now they have a housing crisis. The median price of a home here is $346,000, he explained, but it's $457,000 in Canada.

"If Barbie moved to Winnipeg, she wouldn't be able to afford her dream house and Ken would be working at Tim Horton's," Maher said. Because of the mortgage debt, Canada has the highest household debt to GDP ratio of any country in the G7. Maher also whacked the health care system, explaining it ranked "dead last" among high-income countries in terms of access to primary health care despite the fact that they spend so much on it.

Maher explained he was saying all this as a "cautionary tale to my country." The moral of the tale? "Yes, you can move too far left." He detailed why on the trans issue, America was now an outlier, further left than England and other countries in Europe, pointing out how the NHS pulled back on the use of puberty blockers for kids in March. "The far left, which always liked to use 'Europe does it,' nah, that doesn't work anymore," he said.

It wasn't working on immigration either, he said, noting how it had brought more crime to Sweden. That, he said, will hand future elections to someone "you aren't going to like," throwing up a picture of Trump.

Sounds great to me. He gets it, up until that last point. But the greater point here is what he outlined -- the failure of leftism -- on every level. It's a very funny bit, but it's also a warning.

People got it.

This is spot on, funny, trenchant and a sad commentary on the current state of the Left in the U.S. https://t.co/oIHw4YNoMf
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 13, 2024

From a "Toronto Today" radio host:

This is a legendary, ACCURATE takedown. It’s a KO in the ring, a stretcher carry to the ambulance, a 40 minute ride in the ambulance, arrival at the hospital…where you’ll wait 9 hours to be seen & treated. https://t.co/P12MX2pYn5
— Greg Brady (@gregbradyTO) April 13, 2024