Jim Carrey tells the Democrats: "We must say yes to socialism"

If there were any doubts where Jim Carrey stood on the political spectrum, he wiped them out Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher".

First of all, there were his shoes – brand new Nike sneakers – that Carrey threw on Maher 's desk a few moments after sitting down. They were, he said, "a salute to Colin Kaepernick," the former NFL quarterback who sparked controversy by kneeling during the national anthem to protest the police brutality and racial inequality.

A few days earlier, Nike had revealed that Kaepernick was one of the faces of its "Just Do It" campaign, marking its 30th anniversary, provoking a firestorm on social networks and prompting some critics to get rid of the brand.

"I bought Liberty-loving Nikes!" Declared Carrey without believing it.

At the end of the show, the actor had compared President Trump to a used car salesman and urged Democrats to embrace socialism. He seemed indifferent when Maher warned that Republicans were already using the specter of socialism to attack Democrats before the next mid-term elections.

Democrats needed a plan "to combat this slander," said Maher.

Carrey was not in agreement. Why not go instead? he suggested.

"We must say Yes to socialism, the word and everything, "insisted the actor. "We must stop excusing ourselves."

Maher pointed to a series of candidates who had recently won elections with "flawless Liberal proposals," including Ayanna Pressley in Massachusetts, Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, who openly describes herself as a democratic socialist.

"These candidates have reflected their neighborhoods and reflect their constituencies," said David Axelrod, a Democratic strategist.

Carrey said the Republicans were simply trying to scare people by warning that the United States would end up like Venezuela with the word "socialism".

"I grew up in Canada, okay? We have a socialized medicine. I am here to tell you that this line of bulls you get on all political issues is that it's a failure. The system is a failure in Canada. It's not a failure in Canada, said Carrey. I have never expected anything in my life. I chose my own doctors. My mother never paid a prescription. It was fantastic.

He half joked that socialized medicine might be the reason why Canadians were stereotyped as being "so nice".

"They can be nice because they have health care because they have a government that cares about them," Carrey said. "There are some people in our society who need to be cared for, be helped towards these opportunities, there are people who are sick, you should not have to lose your house because your mother is got sick. "

As one might expect, Carrey's remarks did not go well with the Conservatives.

Fox News Contributor Michelle Malkin tweeted Carrey should buy a one-way ticket to Caracas. ("And do not come back," she added.) Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, always ready to joke with his father, accused Carrey of "playing DUMB AND DUMBER" , a reference to the 1994 film.

Online, some Twitter users have simply cursed or dared to give his money.

Anyone who was surprised by Carrey's political tendencies did not pay attention. The comedian has long since posted on Twitter his own work of art, Trump and his administration.

In one piece, Maher showed the audience on Sunday, Carrey portrays Trump as the wicked witch of the West's "Wizard of Oz," with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) And the representing Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) The surrounding of flying monkeys. In a more recent painting, Carrey caricatured Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump as vampires carrying a torch descending from a crypt.

"Down and down they went – lower than any administration in history," wrote Carrey. "It seemed that the bottom was nowhere in sight."

He added a link to vote.gov, a pressure that is not too subtle for people to register to vote in the next election.

On Friday, Carrey told Maher that art had allowed him to think about "the bomb attack against the outrage that is occurring."

It was the first time Carrey participated in Maher's show to promote her new TV show Showtime, "Kidding". The two men talked about what it was like to work on this project and expressed mutual admiration for their comic roots. But the conversation – as she usually does on "Real Time" – repeatedly comes back to politics.

First, it was a mention of "Cable Guy" and "Truman Show," two of Carrey's 90s movies that motivated change.

"There is something very premonitory in the way the world has become," said Maher.

Carrey was in agreement, saying that he thought the company was "without parents".

"There are generations growing up right now who are learning to lie, that lie is correct, that you're supposed to hate half of the country," Carrey said. "If anything, we have to go back to a place where we realize that a vote is not what you are. Because you have voted Republican, you are not stupid. "You're not worthless, I could break up with someone who voted for Trump, we could find a common ground to like."

The public applauded this branch of olive trees with crossed alleys. Then Carrey turned to the Ace Ventura mode.

Stop doing stupid things! He implored, using an explosive instead of "stuff".

"That's all we expect!" Shouted it.

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