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
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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.
“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.
Do you need anything else to tell you how cracked this guy is?
Did anyone actually read Chomsky’s comments? The Democrats have absolutely veered in a different direction since the Progressive era. The have abandoned the unions in favor of cheap foreign labor. The have embraced foreign intervention and the military industrial complex. They have entered in to and maintain an unholy alliance with the Wall Street Gang and have given the “TooBigToFail” Gang a big sweaty hug. So have the Republicans. For the most part anyway. He quite accurately describes what many on here call the Uniparty. And he quite accurately predicted the rise of a “strongman” which Trump absolutely is. The writer thinks Trump’s “honesty” is not legit. I happen to think it is 100% legit. And Trump has my full support. But don’t discount Chomskly’s analysis of the conditions under which a dude like Trump could rise to the top. He is right. There’s a lot more thought in his comments than the typical “So and So is Hitler” we hear in the lamestream media all the time. Lots more.
Incidentally, the Old Left was not all bad. Wish they were not hunted to extinction. We need people who are against the Perpetual State of War we find ourselves in now, and are willing to stand up against the emergent surveillance state. And be champions of civil liberties when pol’s from both parties are encouraging us to relinquish more and more rights to be “safe.” Seriously. Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
A much better analogy would be with the USSR of 1980s, which was a stable one-party socialist state slipping into morass ... just like the US today.
The irony of this piece is that the morons who think they are making a statement regarding Trump by reference to Chomsky - that Chomsky himself wrote in detailed fashion in, ‘The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism’(initially couldn’t get a publisher in the US had to go to Canada) how the establishment media and corporate America work hand in hand in exploiting for cheap labour and propping up 3rd world dictatorships (or any dictatorships for that matter, Chicoms, etc.). They themselves, not Trump, are the aiders and abetters of fascism and exploitation all the while exporting manufacturing and industry out of the U.S.
Some have suggested Chomsky is a libertarian socialist (he himself has stated he is), others an anarchist. The reality is that his criticisms of the establishment media and corporate cheap labour America are equally applicable to the purveyors of the attacks on Trump.
But the reality is that this piece primarily attacks the Democratic Party:
“Bill Clinton, for his part, destroyed welfare, deregulated Wall Street, worsened the growing mass incarceration crisis, and signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement, a sweeping deal that harmed millions of workers, in the United States, Mexico, and elsewhere.
Today, President Obama, in partnership with congressional Republicans, is lobbying aggressively for the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has been deemed by critics “NAFTA on steroids.” The agreement, if made the law of the land, will encompass 40% of global GDP and will grant massive companies unprecedented power.”
Some of these comments are caricatures but have grains of truth:
“Democrats, in short, have left the working class in the dust, often using “the excuse,” as a recent New York Times editorial put it, “that they need big-money backers to succeed.”
Republicans, meanwhile, as Chomsky has observed, are “dedicated with utter servility” to the interests of the wealthy, and their party, with its longing for war and denial of climate science, “is a danger to the human species.””
The GOPe has certainly gone down the road noted in the latter but Chomsky’s “denial of climate science” is just stupid leftist clap-trap.
I would have thought the empty-suited charismatic figure referenced to in the last paragraph was applicable to Obama though. It has no reference to Trump.
Good grief. Is that old guy still alive and stirring up trouble?
Noam Chomsky is one of the people most responsible for creating a political environment in which Donald Trump can become President.
Extreme leftism requires an extreme solution.