I don't know if I stand corrected since I wasn't all that confident about what he meant, anyway.
But then I've only watched this twice. Let me see if I can sort this out.
If he says that the "those" of the far left who can't see the flaws of this country -- the armed Right who support the Taliban, voter suppression and sending women home, not to mention the flawed origins of the Constitution -- are as blind as the Right, then he's wrong.
We on the Left see an unfolding fundamentalist sexist Christian Taliban here who want to kill people, who "suicide" themselves as mass shooters, who support using state power to nullify voter power.
So I'll give you the Omar example as one flawed perspective, though some of our government IS like the Taliban. Just because the system worked to help her gain office, doesn't mean she's entirely wrong.
Yes to Maher's saying that "Both sides" have see themselves as having flaws.
Big NO to the overall spirit of Maher's argument that is wrong to claim that both sides are equally wrong. He can pick equal numbers of examples of flaws all he wants, but he will never prove both parties are thereby equal in breadth and depth of wrongness.
He just won't admit that the Democratic Left are still the good guys.
He knows that even the other side can see that good is as good does.
He just thinks he can validate the Right's thinking back into a rational arena again.
He just doesn't want to believe how lost and bought they really are.
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