Bill Maher Warns: GOP’s Position Is ‘Democracy Is a Luxury America Can No Longer Afford’ (Video)

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Bill Maher took aim at the Republican party in a big way on Friday night’s “Real Time,” saying that the GOP’s new platform is “making the world safe FROM democracy.”The Washington Post’s assertion that “democracy dies in darkness” is wrong, according to the comedian and late-night host. “It dies in plain sight because enough people think democracy is a luxury America can no longer afford.

That is pretty much the position of the Republican party now, that you can vote for anyone you like but it doesn’t count if it’s not us,” he said during his New Rules segment. “Heads we win, tails we coup.”He went on to argue that there has never been as much difference between the political parties as there is in today’s America.“Here’s why,” he said. “Democrats, for all their flaws, still see democracy as the essence of America.

They see America and democracy as inextricably linked. They believe that one without the other is unthinkable. Republicans – thinkable.

Very, very thinkable. Republicans now seem to be OK with America continuing to exist as a country, but without being a democracy.”Utah Senator Mike Lee is one such example of that kind of think, Maher said, point out that Lee said we’re not a democracy. “‘Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty peace and prosperity are we want the human condition to flourish.