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

[AZProgressive]

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.

[SocialDemocrat61]

1. This Bill Maher?

[dsc]

2. Obama didn't flip on marriage equality until 2012

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]

3. Sorry I don't want to watch... OT but

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

I'm guessing Jon Voight?

TY

[SoFlaBro]

4. KK is on fucking point with the motherfucking analysis of Maher and that MAGA fuckstain Jon Voight.

[Jbraybarten]

5. Fuck Bill Maher

[Emile]

6. Bill Maher purity test for the Democratic party.

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

[Buckeyeblue]

7. Obama was never the liberal that he was accused of being

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]

8. If we were really that far to the left under Obama, the ACA would have had a Medicare for all option...nt

[Johonny]

9. Obama is black, that's all he is saying

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