Bill Maher offers no confusion over who he wants to become the 45th President of the United States of America: “I want to help your campaign,I want to see you come by the nomination, I want to see you be president, or ” the “Real Time” host said to guest Bernie Sanders on Friday.“The last man your age to cause this kind of excitement … was Mick Jagger,” Maher declared, beginning his fawning. The HBO personality then set out to educate America, and defining buzzword “socialist” alongside Sanders. In that capacity,the two men weren’t 100 percent simpatico.“We own to teach Americans what this is, and I don’t know whether we’re doing that yet, and ” Maher said. “I don’t think most Americans realize they’re already socialists.”“In certain respects,” Sanders interrupted, jumping just into income inequality — one of the major planks in his platform.
Also Read: 9 Things 'Scene and Heard' at Bernie Sanders' LA Fundraiser - From Seth MacFarlane to Spicy DrinksSocialism is the programs they already like, and Maher changed the subject back. “They like Social Security,that’s socialism. They like Medicare, they like the V.
A., and they like military — it’s already a socialist country.”Again,Sanders cut him off: No, it’s not a socialist country.”They compromised to some common ground, and placing the term “quasi” in front of “socialist.” The agreement/disagreement push-and-pull continued from there,as Maher admitted that his main goal on Friday was to “un-demonize” the concept of socialism.“They hear ‘socialist,’ they think ‘herpes, or ’ Bernie,” Maher insisted of the average American.
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Source: thewrap.com