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AZProgressive

(29,794 posts)
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 07:21 PM 16 hrs ago

Bill Maher, the party was further to the left on social issues under Obama

I was watching Secular Talk covering Bill Maher and Bill Maher was giving a list of reasons of what is wrong with the current Democratic Party but one of the things he says is that party moved further to the left on social issues after Obama but I have to say the party was very "woke" under Obama. The first time I heard the term "white privilege" was under Obama and it was an easy term for me to understand. People that aren't citizens don't have as many privileges as someone who is a US citizen. Someone that isn't disabled has more privileges than someone that is. Same thing with white privilege. Also under Obama that Democrats were able to help legalize marriage equality and they pushed for comprehensive immigration reform and also challenging SB1070 (an Arizona racial profiling bill) from the federal level. You could also argue electing the first African-American President was an example of how the party was left on those issues.

You could say in 2020 at the peak of Black Lives Matter the party was further to the left on social issues but the Democrats mostly won those elections and after 2020 social issues were rarely mentioned by most politicians in the party but based on my experience the party was further to the left on those issues under Obama and in the 2016 election than they have been since 2020.

Here is the video I was watching.

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Bill Maher, the party was further to the left on social issues under Obama (Original Post) AZProgressive 16 hrs ago OP
This Bill Maher? SocialDemocrat61 16 hrs ago #1
Obama didn't flip on marriage equality until 2012 dsc 15 hrs ago #2
Sorry I don't want to watch... OT but Cha 15 hrs ago #3
KK is on fucking point with the motherfucking analysis of Maher and that MAGA fuckstain Jon Voight. SoFlaBro 14 hrs ago #4
Fuck Bill Maher Jbraybarten 2 hrs ago #5
Bill Maher purity test for the Democratic party. Emile 2 hrs ago #6
Obama was never the liberal that he was accused of being Buckeyeblue 1 hr ago #7
If we were really that far to the left under Obama, the ACA would have had a Medicare for all option...nt Wounded Bear 1 hr ago #8
Obama is black, that's all he is saying Johonny 1 hr ago #9

dsc

(53,265 posts)
2. Obama didn't flip on marriage equality until 2012
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:15 PM
15 hrs ago

or nearly halfway through his term. By the end of his term he may have been fairly far on social issues but not at the beginning.

Cha

(315,878 posts)
3. Sorry I don't want to watch... OT but
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:27 PM
15 hrs ago

could you tell us who that Ugly guy is with Maher?

I'm guessing Jon Voight?

TY

SoFlaBro

(3,726 posts)
4. KK is on fucking point with the motherfucking analysis of Maher and that MAGA fuckstain Jon Voight.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 09:03 PM
14 hrs ago

Emile

(39,203 posts)
6. Bill Maher purity test for the Democratic party.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 09:36 AM
2 hrs ago

Bill Maher can take his right-wing bs, and stuff it where the sun doesn't shine!

Buckeyeblue

(6,120 posts)
7. Obama was never the liberal that he was accused of being
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 10:15 AM
1 hr ago

When i was still on Facebook and Twitter in those days (I left both in 2012), I would ask the anti-Obama people what specific policy they had issues with. It was very difficult for them to come up with anything other than Obama Care. Thing is, they didn't even understand it. Sadly, the tea bagger movement was able to define the narrative on Obama Care. Many people still don't understand that ACA is Obama Care.

Wounded Bear

(63,526 posts)
8. If we were really that far to the left under Obama, the ACA would have had a Medicare for all option...nt
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 10:19 AM
1 hr ago

Johonny

(25,083 posts)
9. Obama is black, that's all he is saying
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 10:33 AM
1 hr ago

And they tolerate black people so long as they're not uppity, but that's about it.

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