Bill Maher Warns Democrats: Keep Undermining Parents, Keep Losing Elections
Bill Maher, ever the rare liberal with a functioning common sense meter, has delivered a reality check to Democrats: waging war on parental rights in transgender issues is a guaranteed way to lose elections. Speaking on Pod Save America, Maher warned that pushing government control over parents when it comes to their own children is a political disaster waiting to happen. But, of course, some Democrats are determined to double down, consequences be damned.
During the conversation, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett made the case that parents should only have a say in their child’s transgender-related decisions if they fully support the ideology being pushed. In other words, parents are only allowed to parent if they agree with the left’s agenda—otherwise, they’re labeled as dangerous. Maher was having none of it. “You want to lose every election? Just keep coming down on the side of parents coming in second,” he shot back. Because apparently, the radical wing of the Democratic Party thinks the government knows better than actual mothers and fathers when it comes to raising children.
Lovett, predictably, compared parents who question gender ideology to abusive parents who put their kids in danger. He even suggested that, in some cases, schools and the state should override parental rights entirely. Maher immediately pushed back, calling out the obvious contradiction in Lovett’s argument. Lovett then tried to walk it back, insisting that while parents should be involved, some are just too “terrible” to be trusted. Conveniently, he left out who gets to decide which parents are “good” and which ones deserve to be sidelined—spoiler alert: it’s not the parents.
Things got even more absurd when Lovett defended irreversible transgender medical interventions by comparing them to heart surgeries that sometimes go wrong—because, you know, performing experimental procedures on minors with no long-term studies is basically the same thing as treating heart disease. Maher wasn’t buying it, pointing out that a major study on transgender medicine was deliberately buried because the findings didn’t fit the preferred narrative. Lovett’s response? More vague claims about “the science” while dismissing the growing concerns over the harm being done to children as “edge cases.”
Maher’s warning was clear: Democrats are playing with electoral fire. The more they push school policies and government overreach that shut parents out of life-altering decisions, the more they alienate voters—including many in their own party. With parental rights shaping up to be a major issue in 2024, the left might want to rethink their strategy. But given their track record, they’ll probably just keep ignoring reality, then act shocked when voters throw them out of office.
