New Rule: Identity Crisis | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

-(AUDIENCE APPLAUSES) -And finally, New Rule. Now that we are all recovered from St. Patrick's Day. Let it be the last one. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) You know, I never understood Irish pride or any pride in anything other than what you've actually achieved. And as the holidays go, St. Paddy's is kind of silly. You don't get gifts like Christmas, candy like Easter, or joyless sex dates like Valentine's Day. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) -(LAUGHTER) You don't even get a Peanuts special. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) There is only one parade. And for what rights are we marching? The right to drink during the day? (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) Do we still need to-- (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) Do we still need to take to the streets in a public expression of support for Irish immigrants?

I think now more than ever we need to stop talking about the things that make Americans different from each other and start honoring the things that make us equal. So let's let my people, the Irish, lead the way because, once again, the Irish think, "I don't give a shit." (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) -But-- -(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) I don't give a shit who wins the next election. And outdated racial pandering is one of the reasons Democrats lose elections. When Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi dressed in Kente cloth, I don't think that earned them a single vote because of their powerful and emotional ties to Ghana. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) Here in California, we are now segregating kidnapping.

Actually. California doesn't just have Amber Alerts for missing children. We have ebony alerts for black boys. And feather alerts for Native American children. What's that? Do we look for them by listening on the ground? (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) (LAUGHTER) Look, even if you like

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politics, this kind of thing is old-fashioned. From 2010 to 2020, the number of people identifying as multiracial in the United States increased 276 percent. One in five newlyweds is now in an interracial marriage, and that number increases to 100 percent in Subaru ads. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) You couldn't make a new version of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Today, because almost 100 percent of Americans approve of interracial marriage.

Especially with rich in-laws. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) And 95 percent of white women would leave their husbands and marry Idris Elba. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) -Yes, that has to be true. -Yeah. -(BILL MAHER Laughing) -(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) (LAUGHTER) That will be one of us. -Yeah. -Idris Elba, who says: "As human beings, we are obsessed with race. And that obsession can

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ly get in the way of people's aspirations." Actress Raven Simone agrees. She told Oprah: "I'm tired of being labeled. I'm not African-American, I'm American." -She-- -(AUDIENCE APPLAUSES) She says: "I don't know what country in Africa I'm from. My roots are in Louisiana." (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) And you don't have to agree with that.

But it is a point of view that many people have. You have to respect it. Morgan Freeman says: "The way to end racism is to stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man." There is even a movement now to ban racial questions on the census, and many of its leaders are people of color. Like Professor Sheena Mason, who says, "To undo racism we have to undo our belief in race." The liberal group moveon.org, formed in 1998, to urge Republicans to move on from Clinton's impeachment trial.

Today's Democrats should leave

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politics behind. It does not work. (AUDIENCE APPLAUSES) It's not working for them or for us. Democrats are bleeding the very voters they think they are pandering to. The Financial Times writes: "Democrats are falling back faster with voters of color than any other demographic group." And he suggests the reason is that "A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity." Exactly, far-left liberals live in an old paradigm. Americans no longer fit into small, neat boxes. Who has the number one country song right now? -Beyonce. -(AUDIENCE APPLAUSES) Lil Nas X won a country music award and is black and gay. (AUDIENCE APPLAVING, APPLAVING) And brand ambassador for America's Waspiest bag, Coach. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) Country's biggest new star is Jelly Roll, who was a drug dealer, then a prisoner, then a rapper, then a country music star with a tattooed face.

Not to mention the giant middle finger at the thought of staying in his own lane. -(PUBLIC LAUGHING, APPLAVING) -No. Now in the United States you are allowed to be many things at the same

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. And that's a good thing, even when it's

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ly stupid. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) Look, now we're all Jelly Roll. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) We are careless, complicated and contradictory. Two-thirds of Republican voters support legalizing marijuana. -And 40-- Yes. -(AUDIENCE APPLAUSES) And 41 percent of Democrats own or live with someone who owns a gun. Ms. Marvel is Pakistani and the winner of the last two NBA dunk contests is White. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) (LAUGHTER) The new Captain America is black, and Spider-Man is black and Puerto Rican.

Just like AI George Washington. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) Latinos make up half of the Border Patrol. And the name of the coolest black guy on the planet is Lenny Kravitz. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) Ru... RuPaul has a ranch in Wyoming that practices fracking. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -Really. And he has a fortified compound with a bunker to die for. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) And somehow, the leader of the People of the Town was heterosexual. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -Really. He just went to the YMCA to work out. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) And the leader of the Proud Boys is not an old white man, he is Enrique Tarrio, an Afri...

Afro-Cuban. He burns crosses on his own lawn. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) Caitlyn Jenner is a pro-Trump trans woman, who supports banning trans athletes from competing in women's sports. And there's even an LGBTQ organization called "Gays for Trump." And why wouldn't there be? Gays love drag queens. (AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) Our black president was half white and our black vice president is half Asian. And Tiger Woods is... Oh, we don't even have

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. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) My point is... (LAUGHTER) -Look-- -(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) You're still building your politics around dividing and dividing people into these fixed categories. Democrats need to get the memo that you can no longer win elections by automatically assuming you will get all the voters other than these guys. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) The more one becomes obsessed with identity, the more one ignores the basic issues that determine winning and losing elections.

The real problem is social class, not race, and the real gap is the division of diplomas. And the real future of the party, and perhaps of democracy, depends on Democrats figuring it out.