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 ...
The Chomper is comparing Trump to lefty tin-god FDR?
Try & read the dreck this idiot writes. He’s incoherent.
“MIT professor and intellectual”
How do you get designated as a “intellectual”? Is it a job title? Or do you just have to hang out in the shitter and sit and think about stuff?
I’m ready for Chomsky to join his comrade Howard Zinn.
“Trump would buy a piece of the establishment when it was a business necessity.....”
Precisely. Now, he wants to cut out the middlemen.
The perfect analogy would be that Trump used to frequent street whores, but now wants to run the brothel himself.
And we are to feel good about that “deal”?
More like Obama’s rise was due to a destructive nation.
Cousin to Te-nessee Coates???
No shi’ite, Sherlock. And liberals are the cause of the breakdown.
Trump’s friends are your friends.
Trump’s enemies are your enemies.
The libs “in vicissim” instinctively know this. That is why they make far better political brawlers than those here who seek refuge in delusion.
tRump’s friends are not my friends. Everybody who disagrees with tRump is his enemy, so his enemies are not my enemies.
Can’t help you....you’re looking at this through jaundiced eyes.....
As a result, I believe your conclusion is wrongly drawn....
The biggest day this guy ever had was the day Hugo Chavez stood at the podium of the UN general assembly and called George W. Bush Satan while extolling Chomsky. How marvelously perverse things can be when you live long enough to see them unfold.
exactly!
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