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Real Talk With Bill Maher
Comedian Bill Maher has been getting more out of step with the far-left progressives of his party lately. Afghanistan may have put him over the edge.
Tom Wolfe once opined: “If a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested, a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.”
Wolfe reminds us in his pithy way that our experiences and life circumstances tend to inform our particular worldview, not the other way around. It is also a timely reminder that violence, and the abuse of citizens by public officials- in any capacity- is a great galvanizing force in politics.
It is the specter of former Senator Barbara Boxer assaulted while out for a walk in her California neighborhood, kicked in the back, robbed, shouting impotently at her assailants as they fled: “How could you do this to a grandmother?!”
It is Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who has been assaulted in public several times now, macing one would-be attacker after, perhaps foolishly, making light of another. Wheeler, it might be added, was hounded out of his former condo by an angry mob who didn’t just threaten to burn down his apartment building- they actually gave it a shot.
Then there are Wolfe’s words as applied to Afghanistan, and the heartbreaking stories of grief and tragedy which have accompanied the even more devastating photos and…