So much talk of late about reaching out to the Trumpers, to listen, understand and give them what they want. The t-poop pictured here called DO YOUR THING GEESE as an example of why that cannot and should not ever happen.
This T-shirt is out of line, and when it flashed on the screen not only did the liberal Los Angeles audience gasp their disapproval, but Maher felt it bomb. If that t-shirt with a HRC emblem on the plane were presented by The Donald at one of his rallies, you know damn well it would have brought the house down in foot stomping applause. Character matters.
The entire Real Time show last night was about reaching out to The Deplorables and the twenty some states that will go with him by 10 or more points. Mostly confederate states or where few people actually live.
To bring these people home, some of whom I interact with daily, to the Democratic Party would mean to reject the separation of church and state, to reject gay marriage, to reject both the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment, to give up any gun control at all, to reject women choosing to have an abortion, to reject Latinos, African Americans, Muslims and LBGT and to abandon Obamacare or any fix that would lead to a single payer health care system. Which should be tied with education and Global Warming as the most important issues.
So what good does rubbing their noses in their own yard leavings? For all their talk of change the are incapable of it, they are going to be filled with anger, hate and the stupid no matter what anyone does or says. Okay, there may be some self entertainment in getting one’s licks at the poorly educated bigotry that drives all of it to shame them back under the rocks from whence they came.
Though there is one very good reasons to not embrace these people and keep the drum pounding, for by keeping their hate, anger and stupid stage center it further fractures and weakens the GOP to once again become the opposition minority party it was always intended to be.