Maher is waking up but not woke. He's one of the few liberals who is willing to call out the woke BS that is infecting our society. I'd call that progress.
As for this point, I'd say "democracy" is failing because we are headed toward communism and the sheep are clueless. Censoring speech by means of the government's alliance with the private sector should be scary enough, but having the system take out the people's choice of leadership will seal the deal. Our founders would be sick if they could see how this government has devolved.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy
