OPINION
You know you’ve really screwed up when your own side are saying, “Hold up…”
And when Bill Maher says you’re a case study of extreme wokeness, then you better listen. No, he wasn’t talking to you, New Zealand, or even Cucktoria, here in Australia.
Bill Maher took aim at Canada calling the country a “cautionary tale” and warning that its embrace of “extreme wokeness” is forcing voters to the right.
By “right”, of course, they mean ‘slightly to the right of Mao and Pol Pot’. To a ship of fools drifting ever further to the left, everyone standing still on shore looks like they’re drifting to the ‘far right’.
During a monologue last week on Real Time With Bill Maher, the late-night personality compared Canada to America and carefully demonstrated how high unemployment, unchecked immigration, skyrocketing debt and lack of productivity are seeing the country falling further and further behind its G7 counterparts.
“If we want to save our country, we should learn from other progressive nations and pump the brakes on extreme wokeness,” Maher wrote in a caption that accompanied a clip posted to YouTube.
“If we want to save our country, we should follow the advice good liberals have given for decades and learn from other countries. Especially those beacons of progressivism like Canada, England and Scandinavia, and I agree we should, as long as we’re honest about the lessons we’re learning and as long as we’re up to date on the current data,” Maher began his eight-minute warning.
In contrast to the usual leftist jeremiads claiming that the US is the worst of everything, Maher pointed out just how many indices on which Canada is well behind America.
Maher then compared the unemployment rate in America (3.8%) and Canada (6.1%), and revealed that his neighbours to the north has more cities with worse air pollution than in the US […]
“There’s only one problem with thinking everything’s better in Canada: It’s not. Not anymore, anyway. Last year, Canada added 1.3 million people, which is a lot in one year – the equivalent of the US adding 11 million migrants in one year. And now, they’re experiencing a housing crisis even worse than ours and we’re sleeping in tents. The median price of a home here is $346,000. In Canada converted to US dollars, it’s $487,000. If Barbie moved to Winnipeg, she wouldn’t be able to afford her dream house and Ken would be working at Tim Hortons.”
But, but… the free healthcare!
“(It) ranks dead last among high income countries, and access to primary health care, and the ability to see a doctor in a day or two. And it’s not for lack of spending. Of the 30 countries with universal coverage, Canada spends over 13 per cent of its economy on it, which is a lot of money for free health care. Look, I’m not saying Canada still isn’t a great country, it is, but those aren’t paradise numbers. If Canada was an apartment, the lead feature might be: ‘America adjacent.’”
On the plus side, if you want to commit suicide, Canada is more than happy to help. Even if you don’t want to.
Maher even dared take a tilt at the left’s sacred cow: immigration.
Jumping to immigration, he cited Sweden opening its borders to “over a million and a half immigrants since 2010” which led to “20 per cent” of its citizens being foreign born, its education system “tanking,” and Europe’s leader in “gangland killings.”
“One result is that the far-right parties are in the government now there for the first time. To which liberals say blaming immigrants for the rising crime rate is racist. Yeah, but is it true? Of course it’s true. It’s not a coincidence the quality of life went down after the Somali gangs started a drug turf war using hand grenades. Calling it racist doesn’t solve the problem. It hands future elections to someone who will solve the problem and who I promise you’re not going to like,” he said, flashing a photo of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The Toronto Sun
Note that Maher is saying something that a lot of us have being trying to tell the left for years: just because you don’t like the Bad Orange Man, doesn’t mean that he can’t do the job. As a younger friend once told me, “Sure, Trump’s an asshole – but he’s the asshole we need, right now.”