Even though Maher is a traditional liberal, I still support his right to seek employment from a company that is willing to pay him for his services as long as they are inclined to pay him. I’m a crazy free thinker like that.

Why fear the free flow of ideas like the progressive left does?

When I say that Maher is a traditional liberal, I’m talking about throwbacks like two former vice presidents in the mold of Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey. They believed that the federal government needed to do more things to “help people” by taking away their motivation to do for one’s self, since a bureaucrat in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., could do it better. I know that this is a brief encapsulation, but I wanted to give you an idea of what I’m talking about. Maher also fits into this mold, being that those two, former elected officials and others like them would NEVER object to folks speaking out peacefully or advocating for people they disagree with being “canceled” in the name of achieving their objectives.

They valued the give and take of debate, much like the founders of this country did.

Maher is a comic by trade, so I appreciate his take on things even if I do not agree with his overall, bigger government view. Comics are supposed to harpoon the idiotic they see, and I have written about this here a number of times. Bill Maher Confirms if the Woke Movement Is to Die, Comics Must Lead the Way. From that article…

The reason why I bring up comics pushing back on the #woke nonsense of today is that if we are to begin unwinding and pushing back on this feeling over everything else malarkey, those who tell jokes for a living will need to lead the way. Most of them slept while this neo-fascist, thought police crap crept into our society. Now that people like Maher, and others that are popular like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, and Ricky Gervais, are willing to point and laugh, we should follow their lead.

Because you know the left hates it when people laugh at them. Good lord, do they hate it. How dare people laugh at their obvious smugness and ‘smarter than thou’ assertions.

Now, I do not give a flying rat’s you-know-what if Maher and others are left of center from me. A lot of my friends do not see the world as I do, and I have no issue with that. I mock them for it and vice versa.

Thankfully, Maher has not lost his comic roots and is willing to push back on the nonsense being spouted today, and he seems to be doubling down on this approach. Even though it is people more aligned with his side on some issues — and lord knows, they do not like being made fun of.

As my colleague Nick Arama wrote about yesterday here at RedState, Maher really dug in deep on his latest show. Bill Maher Explains How the Left Has ‘Gone Mental’…

“Some people think this means I’ve changed, but I assure you, I have not,” he added. “I am still the same unmarried, pot-smoking libertine I always was. I have many flaws, but you can’t accuse me of maturing.

“Let’s get this straight,” the comedian declared. “It’s not me who changed — it’s the left, who is now made up of a small contingent who’ve gone mental, and a large contingent who refuse to call them out for it. But I will,”

“That’s why I’m a hero at Fox these days,” he said. “Which shows just how much liberals have their head up their a**, because if they really thought about it, they would have made me a hero on their media.”

Maher said some thought that he “didn’t use to make fun of the left as much,” but he explained that’s because they “didn’t give me so much to work with.”

His ending of this segment nails what we should have been mocking all along: the intrusion of the nanny state to help us do everything but wipe our own arses. Maher talks about a woodshed he built to house a solar battery to save the planet, and the hoops he had to go through to get it approved. He finishes up with a warning that Costco now has to put on the shed when anyone purchases such a unit.

If you buy a shed at Costco it comes with this warning, WARNING this product can expose you to wood dust. Wood dust, no kidding, which is known to the state of California to cause cancer. That’s right, California thinks you are going to snort your shed!!

Hopefully, Bill Maher continues on this path, using his comedic wit to shred the everyday stupidity of lots of groups who feel the nanny state urge of imposing their views on everyone.

This crap needs to stop — no matter what your worldview is.

Maher does not need to be put on a pedestal for this, but he sure as hell deserves our appreciation and support, particularly if the woke mob comes after him at some point.

I know he has mine.