CNN host Fareed Zakaria was a guest, along with former Democrat Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on the HBO show “Real Time” with host Bill Maher where he articulated his issues with the Democrat Party.

He argued that in Democrat cities the citizens pay the highest taxes but get virtually nothing for it.

“This is a huge Democrat Party problem. If you look at Democratic cities, they are terribly run. They have incredibly high taxes, it is impossible to build so the cost of housing — let me finish. Let me finish. I gave you a chance. The cost of housing is crazy in places like New York and Chicago. If you look at Democratic states, you go to look at New York versus Florida, okay, roughly the same population,” the CNN host said.

“The budget of New York State is twice that of Florida. What do they have, streets paved with gold? I live in New York. I pay the highest taxes in New York. You get nothing for it. And I think that is the image people have of the Democratic Party: lots of taxes, lots of regulation, but nothing gets done. And I think Democrats have to own this and realize the answer to everything is not more taxes, more regulation. People are fed up with that and they feel that it isn’t working,” he said.

Even for the former Chicago mayor took his own city to the woodshed.

“We’ve gone through five years where people became way too permissive as a culture – which is why everything is locked up at CVS and Walgreens, and that’s a disaster,” Emanuel continued.

“We have the worst reading scores for eighth graders in 30 years, and nobody – not a governor, not a mayor, not a president, not a secretary of education is talking about it. We’re all wrapped up,” Emanual added before scorching the woke policies that have appeared to take over his Party.

“Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls’ bathroom, I would have done it,” Emanuel joked.