Posted on 05/20/2016 6:51:31 AM PDT by Mariner
In an interview with Chris Hedges in 2010, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and dissident intellectual, remarked that he has “never seen anything like this.”
By this, he meant the state of American society, relative to the time in which he was raised — the Depression years — and to the tumultuous state of Europe during that same period.
“It is very similar to late Weimar Germany,” Chomsky said. “The parallels are striking. There was also tremendous disillusionment with the parliamentary system. The most striking fact about Weimar was not that the Nazis managed to destroy the Social Democrats and the Communists but that the traditional parties, the Conservative and Liberal parties, were hated and disappeared. It left a vacuum which the Nazis very cleverly and intelligently managed to take over.”
For decades, Chomsky has warned of the right turn of the Democratic Party, which has, in an effort to win elections, adopted large swaths of the Republican platform and abandoned the form of liberalism that gave us the New Deal and, later, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Look for more of this, a lot more.
Looking forward to the liberals being rounded up. Arbeit macht fre.
If only.
“Gosh! Did you know that Trump is Hitler reincarnated?”
Yes, I’m reminded every day. It seems as if no conversation is complete without comparing someone to Hitler or the NAZIs.
Chomsky has warned of the right turn of the Democratic Party, which has, in an effort to win elections, adopted large swaths of the Republican platform and abandoned the form of liberalism that gave us the New Deal and, later, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
Right Noam, it was one of those 360 degree right turns...
Noamstrodamus
???
Clever.
How can Trump be “Hitler reincarnated”? I thought the libs said it was Bush who was Hitler reincarnatedd
I’m so confused.
One thing you can rely on with Chomsky. Anything he writes is complete whackadoodle.
The German and international Communists paved the way for Hitler.
Noam Chomsky NEVER EVER EVER EVER shuts-up.
NO ONE is more continuously being interviewed by left-wing media on all subjects. He probably records 3000 hours of material every year.
With all that in the can, you can probably go back and cherry-pick pieces and clam that he predicted ANYTHING.
The dem party swerved to the right? This is news.
He needs to stop with the LSD and magic mushrooms.
If the democrats turned any more to the left they would disappear up Vladimir Lenin's nether regions.
Morons at salon.
Noam misses the parallel, we are more like Rome in the final stages.
“the Nazis managed to destroy the Social Democrats”
Nazi is essentially an acronym for National Socialist German Worker Party.
Can anyone explain what the difference is between a National Socialist and a Social Democrat? Sanders says he is a Democratic Socialist. Can it possibly make any difference? In my mind there is little difference between Communism and Socialism let alone various brands of socialism.
A haiku
Noam STFU
You’re Commie change agent
Destined for the rope
Do you need anything else to tell you how cracked this guy is?
Everyone knows Bernie’s right wing policies are why he’s getting the votes, right?
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