Liberal Comedian Bill Maher Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About the Democrat Youth [WATCH]

During Friday night’s episode of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher issued a sharp critique of the Democratic Party’s current trajectory, accusing its leadership of enabling a wave of anti-American sentiment among younger supporters and failing to push back on growing sympathy for terrorist groups.

Maher opened his monologue by calling on Democrats to “reclaim the flag,” pointing to polling data that shows a declining sense of patriotism among younger party members.

“This is a serious problem for Democrats,” Maher said.

“Less than one in four Democrats under 30 say they’re proud to be an American. 54% say they’re embarrassed by it.”

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Mocking that mindset, Maher said, “Embarrassed? Like America is your mom picking you up at school? You’re embarrassed to be an American? Well, guess what? The feeling’s mutual. Because you have no perspective.”

He acknowledged that America is not perfect but argued that it remains far ahead of many nations in areas that progressives claim to value.

“The U.S. is leagues ahead of the rest of the world on most of the progressive issues that are important to young people,” Maher said.

“America has 14 million women-owned businesses. 17% of black women are starting businesses, which is faster than white women or white men. Gay Americans are free to marry and 49% of them own property. Yes, in America, gays buy buildings. In other places, they get thrown off them.”

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Maher also pointed out that much of what younger generations mock in America’s past culture actually demonstrates progress.

“You know all those old movies you think are cringe? Well, they’re cringe because America changed, because we modernized, way more than most societies have,” he added.

“Our current Congress is the most racially and ethnically diverse ever. They’re like a beautiful, useless rainbow.”

He then turned to what he called a deeper dilemma for the Democratic Party: the growing alignment of its youth base with extremist groups.

“Their young people, their key constituency, not only don’t like their own civilization, they like the wrong one,” Maher stated.

“They actually think Hamas is a liberation movement. They chant for the Houthis. They’re chanting, ‘We will honor our martyrs’ at Yale.”

Maher described a scene from a rally in Idaho last month for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), where a Palestinian flag was thrown over an American flag, prompting cheers from the crowd.

“What should have happened after that is, one of the adults on stage should have told their young loyal followers, [a keffiyeh] is not a symbol of freedom. [The American flag] is,” he said.

He also noted the dangerous rhetoric becoming popular on campuses and online.

“Globalize the intifada is the catchphrase that’s really catching on these days,” Maher warned.

“As if worldwide suicide bombing and cosplaying Islamic revolutionaries is the answer to our problems.”

Maher did not spare the Democratic leadership, saying, “If the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging and not rebuking this idea that America is cringe and the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed.”

He concluded by pointing to a broader cultural trend. “Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-MI) right. Liberals are weak and woke, especially the white ones, and they indulge all sorts of nonsense from their kids, a pattern that then continues on in the Democratic Party.”

“Last election, it was all the gender stuff, the insistence that men can have babies and such, and now I fear that ‘we like the terrorists’ is the new that,” Maher said.

“Liberals need to push back on the dumb ideas that come from their children. The Democrats’ problem is the energy of the party is with the young, and the young are with the terrorists. That’s not good.”

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