New Rule: American Elegy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

America is a funny, mixed up place now. Why don't we just resist our worst impulses and remember we're not so different after all?

[Mrz]

Bill, Finally, recognition that farmers are not stupid and uneducated. My family were farmers. Agricultural Science. Social work. Fine Arts. English Literature. Army. Reading and hard physical work encouraged. Oh, and we’re Kansans.

[Vielthic]

That is the Bill I know and love!
Thank you Sir!

[simon]

No one will ever be able to convince me that it's not the result of Social Media that we're so f'ed up now.

[michaelpuskas]

Hey Bill,
For a long time now, I have been having a difficult time with your concept of 'everyone should get along'.
Congratulations, you just did it.
Great job!

[anath]

Do not lump all country singers of old into one category. Johnny Cash, who became famous in the late 50s. was a progressive Democrat & used his stardom to shine a light on the plight of Native Americans. In 1964, he released the album “Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian”...the single was “The Ballad of Ira Hayes, ” the Native American who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima. Columbia Records opposed & refused to promote it. The CMA asked him to leave their ranks. So he posted a letter on a billboard calling them “cowards, ” then kept up the pressure until the song reached #3 on the country billboard charts. In 1966, the Seneca tribe made him a member. He never stopped his activism for them. In the 1980s, he formed a band with 3 other progressive Democrats: Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson called “The Highwaymen.” Marty Stuart, who started out as a member of Cash’s band, said Cash influenced him & he took up the Native American plight, released his own album called, “Badlands: Ballads of the Lakota.” Willie is very active…he helped found Farm Aid, one thing.

[monsterguyx]

I know a lot of people say Maher has fallen off lately, but this video is exactly the kind of message Americans need right now... Less "us vs. them, " more "We, the people."

[jasonwardy]

Thank you Bill. Much needed perspective. ❤

We Americans are complicated, but an unstoppable force when we work together. There is room for blue, red and purple in this country. We just have to figure it out 🇺🇸

[penelopejones]

Oh wow, bringing people together and pointing out our similarities, I really needed that, thank you so much!

[nate_kang]

We Americans have so much more in common than we think. It is for this very reason that I despise manufactured social divisions so much

[linmiller]

Musicians always seem to respect TALENT, no matter what color a person is. If only people took the time to see what someone is really like. As an older, white woman who uses a cane, I cannot tell you how many times a young African American person has gone out of their way to open a door for me and wait for me to hobble through it -- and I truly appreciate the effort, the patience and the NICENESS.

[coleenvanstaden]

From Cape Town, South Africa.. What a refreshing take on the people of the USA in 2024! ❤

[winterlilith]

This is how unifier does it work! So much respect to you Bill. As always, I have been your fans for a long time!

[cherylmccloud]

Hi from Australia😊👋! Voting reduces the risk of unwanted presidencies!🌊🇺🇸🗽!

[dailybunnymemes]

I live in Sugar Land. We have a ton of immigrants here.

It’s called Sugar Land because it used to be a private sugar plantation. It was also called “Hell on the Brazos (River)” because so many slaves were worked to death.

After slavery was abolished, they just threw black people in jail and then put them to work. They buried black convict labor in mass graves, which just this decade they uncovered when they were building new schools.

Sugar Land is a nice city and a lovely community with a very ugly past. I guess it’s all good so many immigrants live here now. They can write the next chapters of Sugar Land’s history.

[jimrusconi]

I am pretty liberal my family is pretty conservative. If we were to talked about politics we would fight. If we talk about ideas we can have constructive conversations. Tribalism is the problem not policy.

[sharonroberts]

Long overdue editorial. Plenty of East Tennesseans agree with Bill Maher on politics. We may live in a state where our presidential vote usually doesn’t count, but we live in a country where it should still matter! Yes, my life and how I conduct my social conversation has changed in the last ten years because of the toxic political environment, but it just makes me want to have more compassion and mercy on those who believe differently all while fighting in any way I can to preserve our basic freedoms. Those who are more independent-minded, middle-ground thinkers and voters may not be as loud as the extremists on the right and left, but watch us in November. We are still here!

[kyleray]

Man I never thought I would say this. But I have become a huge Bill Maher fan. He has become the voice of reason these days.

[lafuerza]

Great analysis and advice for the US and the world. It is time to get past this ever increasing divide. Sending love and respect from Canada.

[silvercharm]

One of the better segments Mr. Maher has done in a long time. Here, he is reflective, thoughtful, and insightful. Yes, the US is a very complex, sophisticated, modern country with nuances and diversity and the reality is not what the far-right maga cult followers are stuck believing, the reality is that the vast majority of Americans are respectful, decent people who are friendly and neighbourly and generous and curious and want to get along . Americans can do this !

[walcoman]

That dog was hilarious with it's psycho eyeballs 😂😂😂😂😂