"American politics "seem to be getting worse because, sorry to say it, people get stupider and stupider every election cycle.""

And how does Maher deal with this?  By offering strawmen arguments, half-baked analysis, tortured analogies, and attempts at "humor".

What is with these washed-up, has-been standup comics and their liberal rants?  Bitter, much?

about people getting stupider and stupider every election cycle.  I mean, look how close these elections have gotten from the days of Reagan as more and more stupid people vote for the liberal blowhard. 

And on the economics front, what idiot thinks that by increasing the supply of a product while demand for that product remains the same would force the price down?!?!?!?!?  Morons

yup - I love my mid afternoon sarcasm

So let's get this straight, you think the American people are stupid?  You don't think increasing supply over demand will lower the price of an item?  You are intolerant of people with religious views different from your own?  You are condescending and biased against people older than 65?  You make fun of people by cross dressing them?

Wow, I had no idea that liberals were so stuck on themselves, juvenile in their thinking and looked down their noses at everyone else not of their group.  If a so called journalist can say this on TV as if it were a truism it certainly does speak to the total lack of character of liberals in general and Obama supporting Democrats specifically.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village. 

Maher fits in well with Matthews and Olbie....

The Three Stooges.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

The public is getting stupider. Look how many people support Obama, yet they admit they know nothing about the guy and can't list a single accomplishment of his professional or political career.

The biggest concerns in this election are the economy, energy prices, and Iraq. And Obama openly admits to wanting to raise taxes when we're bordering on a recession, has no real plan to increase domestic energy production(instead he'll level a windfall profits tax on oil companies), and insisted the surge was destined to fail and won't admit after the fact that it was a success.

Yet here he is potentially our next President. Yes, I'd say Bill Maher is on to something. Only he's directing his vitriol at the wrong voting bloc. 

I'm tired of tip-toeing around these pinkos, like Bill Maher and his ilk. Read Das Kapital (or re-read, for the scholars) and compare its thesis and its utter failure when put in practice (USSR, anyone?) You'll be shocked and amused at how much of the current democrat party talking points and their goals for America are taken from Uncle Karl. To Maher, Americans being stupid means they are less and less seduced by the doublespeak of libs and dems trying to present themselves as people cut from American cloth, and yet trying to impose the slavery of collectivism and redistributionism on this country.

People are getting smarter, Bill! They're able to figure out and reject you and your lowlife buds on the left.

Maher is, of course, correct. The fact that three morons such as he, Olbermann, and Matthews are allowed anywhere within 100 feet of a TV camera proves it. And the fact that we have a candidate with no experience, no knowledge, and no accomplishment also proves it.

On an unrelated note, I have always held that, if we could somehow manage to clone Bill Maher's nose and mass produce it, then all that sucking wind would make wind power a viable reality.

That's Maher.  More and More each time he's on TV.  World doesn't need another blowhard.

He is right on one thing.  That there are stupid people out there who continue to give him employment and an audience.  I hope he appreciates that wouldn't happen in any other country.

Americans are being dumbed down. We are getting dumber as a whole. how?

More people care about whats going on with american idol than they do about the election - or russia - or iraq.

more people care about the lives of paris and lindsay than they do about actual problems this country face like inflation and open borders.

when you can name the finalists for american idol but not the secretary of state, sorry, i think thats dumb 

our kids aren't even being taught proper american history.  

Is "stupider" even a word?