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Case and point, leftists probably helped reelect trump because kamala was "bad" on the middle east, despite what trump is like. The problem is, when we take extreme leftist talking points seriously, such as "america bad" "western values bad" then we become oblivious when there is in fact something about our country worth fighting for. When leftists assume democrats and republicans are equally bad, the narrative destroys this country as refusal to support lesser of two evils results in fascists like trump taking power and fucking everything up. meanwhile i really think people like cory booker, as a random example, genuinely care, regardless of whatever cartoonish 'career politician' label you place on them, all because of 'gaza.' The gaza issue has destroyed our discourse from the inside. I agree the genocide sucks, but lets fix our own problems before we sink our teeth into one single issue and become as dumb as single issue anti abortion voters. And btw, for all intents and purposes, abortion is a genocide too btw.

yes, hed be im his 80s and winding down, but forget about that part.

i just rewatched its bad for ya comedy special and was floored by how amazing he was and how badly we need a voice like his today. but to start off, there is a problem.

my prediction is hed be more of a center left type, implying hed hate the stupid shit on the far left, being the type of wokeness that encompassess political correctness as well as cancel culture in general.

so the far leftist types would hate him for probably saying offensive things and trashing religion which is now not popular with progressives who want to tolerate stupid beliefs. also, just maybe hed be shit on for having a nuanced take on isreal palestine. though to be fair, in his routines, he would be very critical of americas / western values, bad qualities, however that doesnt mean hed support marxist values like many leftists do today. once the left cancels you for being morally impure, your reputation is fucked, and you either suck up to them to gain their admiration again which george wouldnt do, or you become a right wing comedian, which george wouldnt do.

then on the far right hed be seen as the devil for having tds, trashing trump and the anti intellectuals who voted for him. the leftists like the bullshit of religion, so do the far right, and george carlin would in todays age get stuck in the middle as a rare breed of no nonsense centrist liberal, which is a bizarre place to be.

i guess my point is that we live in an age where we are told who to like depending entirely on what political team they are on in regards to every fucking big ass issue, and carlin was too nuanced and sophisticated for that. hed end up pissing off both sides, and as a result hed be less popular today than he used to be due to his aversion to sticking with tribes. besides, he was always against groups of people, and in this age, individualism is shunned on both sides. hed fit in less and be seen as an out of touch centrist. for the record i dont like bill maher much since he sucks up to trump, but i guess carlin would be in this feeble centrist position today where no amount of articulate brilliance would contend with the reality that we like our heros depending on what youtube or tiktok algorithms brainwash us into liking. great commentary alone cant save him, only allegiance to the correct popular beliefs, and that wasnt his style.