Posted on 02/24/2016 3:16:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MIT professor and intellectual Noam Chomsky attributes Donald Trump's success in the Republican presidential primary to "fear" and a "breakdown of society."
In an interview published Tuesday, AlterNet's Aaron Williams asked Chomsky for his thoughts on Trump's "surprising progress." After a second-place finish in Iowa, the billionaire has stormed to consecutive double-digit wins in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
"Fear, along with the breakdown of society during the neoliberal period," Chomsky responded. "People feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence."
Chomsky compared the political environment that's allowed Trump to flourish to the 1930s, when the U.S. was in the Great Depression. "Objectively, poverty and suffering were far greater," Chomsky said. "But even among poor working people and the unemployed, there was a sense of hope that is lacking now, in large part because of the growth of a militant labor movement and also the existence of political organizations outside the mainstream."
Trump and Hillary Clinton are leading in their respective primaries, but Chomsky demurred when asked who he thought would win the White House....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Dear Noam,
Really don’t mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can’t make you think.
Your sperm’s in the gutter your love’s in the sink.
So you ride yourselves over the fields and
You make all your animal deals and
Your wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in
The tidal destruction
The moral melee.
The elastic retreat rings the close of play as the last wave uncovers
The newfangled way.
But your new shoes are worn at the heels and
Your suntan does rapidly peel and
Your wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
“People feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence.”
If that’s the case they feel victimized by the powerful force of govt being used to screw up their lives and country by unconstitutional means. The helplessness is due to a Repub party that promises to fight for them and then does NOTHING.
He's making all the right enemies.
The garden Gnome of the left speaks. Gnome Chomsky.
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“Imagine how stupid a Freeper would have to be, not to support Trump?”
Imagine how stupid a Freeper will feel when he finds he has been conned by a Liberal pretending to be a conservative.
“intellectual”
Don’t make me vomit
Every time I get a fundraising call from the alumni association I ask if Noam is still on the payroll. If their answer is yes then my answer is no.
Riiiight.
The 'Liberal', attacked by Chomsky. Thanks for proving my point.
Why is it every time I’m in opposition with the leftists it’s because I’m afraid and/or ignorant?
A blast from the past, and still the wise men have no clue...
Yet another reason to support Trump!
” “People feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence.”
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Yeah,thanks to folks like you,Noam.
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First, the dear professor is full of Sh*t......peering down his nose at all of us and getting his analysis completely wrong......
Second, your analysis is close but not a bullseye.... Trump would buy a piece of the establishment when it was a business necessity.....
He is not the establishment anymore than i was when I had to pay a union reps a “donation” to get projects done on time..,,
This is what our representatives in Washington basically are, political whores who help expedite to the highest bidder...
“The ‘Liberal’, attacked by Chomsky. Thanks for proving my point.”
When you finally figure out that Trump is not what you think he is, remember that you were warned.
Gnome Chomsky is the Left’s Thomas Sowell without the intellectual heft.
Give credit where it is due. Obama is more the symptom than the cause. The elites in both parties have been undermining America for decades.
The commie actually has some good points. Society is breaking down, and I think people have had enough of politics as usual.
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