Bill Maher said that people don’t have an accurate view of socialism. He said that people have these ideas that everyone is on a collective farm, and that this is inaccurate. He said that socialism is simply another political party or political movement in Europe, and that people still have all their freedoms.
Not saying I agree with Bill Maher, just that as a prominent liberal Hollywood idiot type, that’s what he tells his viewers.
That pathetic clown should be pressed to define "freedom." Few at this venue would accept what he came up with.
Socialism in Europe destroys the upward mobility of the middle-class, by confiscating so high a percentage of their earnings, that they are locked in place--totally stultified. Sweden has been the classic example since the early 1930s. The Swedes did not totally self-destruct as did the Marxists (Bolsheviks) in Russia who killed off their most talented farmers; or as the major customer & ally of Swedens' Socialist Government, south of the Baltic; but in freezing the productive in place, they put a ceiling on any long-term progress.
Of course, the Bill Mahers do not understand dynamic human interaction. He is probably just mouthing things some hapless Academic told him years ago.
William Flax