{"id":2160609,"date":"2025-11-16T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2160609"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:15:52","slug":"bill-maher-rails-against-democratic-socialism-on-hbos-real-time-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bill-maher-rails-against-democratic-socialism-on-hbos-real-time-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Rails Against Democratic Socialism on HBO\u2019s \u2018Real Time\u2019 | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/real-time-with-bill-maher\/\"><em>Real Time<\/em><\/a> host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/bill-maher\/\">Bill Maher<\/a> argued against democratic socialism on Friday\u2019s (November 14) show, following the success of New York City mayor-elect <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/zohran-mamdani\/\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, a self-described Democratic Socialist.<\/p>\n<p>Maher said, \u201cDemocrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it\u2019s the Republican Party,\u201d per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-tears-socialism-begs-democrats-embrace-moderate-candidates\"><em>Fox News Digital,<\/em><\/a> arguing that Mamdani\u2019s victory speech will be used \u201cin every attack ad for the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Maher noted that Mamdani \u201cseems like a nice guy,\u201d he urged the Democrats not to get swept up in \u201csocialism fever.\u201d He pointed to another victor in the recent elections, Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, who argued before the 2024 presidential election, \u201cIf the party didn\u2019t shift to the center, we will get torn apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, she was right, but they didn\u2019t listen. Typical, am I right, ladies?\u201d Maher stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Rule: Flirting with Socialism | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2a3S-oSf3uk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDemocratic socialism is like a dating profile. Things look great until you meet up in the real world,\u201d the HBO host continued, pointing to Sen. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/bernie-sanders\/\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt) as an example. \u201cHis big thing was always bringing single-payer health care to our country of 340 million. But when liberal, tie-dyed Vermont tried to do it for a population of 626,000, it collapsed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher was referencing Vermont\u2019s proposal for single-payer health care, modeled on a system used successfully in many other developed countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, South Korea, and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBernie, AOC, Mamdani are not Democrats. They\u2019ll be the first to tell you that they\u2019re Democratic Socialists,\u201d Maher went on. \u201cAnd that\u2019s a very different thing. And I don\u2019t think people know that yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_middle\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\">\n<div id=\"tncms-block-2041067\" class=\"tncms-block\">\n<div id=\"mc_embed_shell\">\n    <link href=\"https:\/\/cdn-images.mailchimp.com\/embedcode\/classic-061523.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"\/>\n<section class=\"mc_hero\">\n<div id=\"mc_hero_signup_embed\">\n<div class=\"mc_image\">\n                \n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"mc_cta\">\n<p>Headlines, puzzles and death notices from the Valley delivered to your inbox 7 a.m. daily.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Maher acknowledged socialist programs such as Medicare, Social Security, and Food Stamps, he claimed that Democrats like Mamdani are far more radical. \u201cMuch of it appropriate to soften the edges of capitalism. But the DSA are radicals about this concept,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd radical economic policy is always ineluctably married to radical social policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher stated that he and others want a \u201cmoderate\u201d party that leans towards the center. \u201cWe\u2019ve had enough of Trump\u2019s macho bull**** and also enough of p***y politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Maher\u2019s protestations, Democratic Socialists have had success in recent elections. Following Mamdani\u2019s New York mayoral victory, 43-year-old <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/11\/14\/seattle-mayor-katie-wilson-43-year-old-democratic-socialist\/\">Democratic Socialist Katie Wilson unseated<\/a> centrist Democrat Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Thursday (November 13), running on a campaign based on affordability.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<p><strong><em>Real Time With Bill Maher<\/em>, Fridays, 10\/9c, HBO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Time host Bill Maher argued against democratic socialism on Friday\u2019s (November 14) show, following the success of New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist. Maher said, \u201cDemocrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it\u2019s the Republican Party,\u201d per Fox News Digital, arguing that Mamdani\u2019s victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2076437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2160609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Seattle-Jazz-Fellowships-Monday-night-jazz-jam-draws-all-ages-crowd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160610,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160609\/revisions\/2160610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}