HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher took aim at the U.S. education system during Friday’s ‘Overtime’ segment, arguing that younger generations are unaware of socialism and communism’s historical failures because schools aren’t teaching them.
‘The reason why they don’t know that socialism didn’t work in the past, to this degree, or Communism, is because nobody taught them in school,’ Maher said. ‘And they think they just were delivered down here on earth, there was no past.’
While acknowledging that some government programs—like Medicare, Social Security, and even the Marine Corps—could be considered socialist in nature, Maher drew a sharp distinction between those and the far-left push for complete government control. ‘That’s not what these people are selling, these far-left people,’ he said. ‘They want the government to take over everything. That is a prescription for failure.’
Maher framed the issue as a systemic failure in education, calling it an ‘indictment of our educational system’ that young Americans lack historical context for economic systems that have repeatedly collapsed under authoritarian regimes.
The comedian and political commentator has frequently criticized progressive policies in recent years, though he remains a vocal critic of the right as well. His latest remarks add to an ongoing debate about how U.S. schools teach—or avoid—controversial political and economic topics.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/11/07/maher-young-people-not-knowing-failures-of-socialism-communism-an-indictment-of-schools/