Ah dear Noam, they didn't listen in 1929 either...
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Those Who Failed to Recognize Trump as 'Greater Evil' Made a 'Bad Mistake':
Chomsky
Published on
Friday, November 25, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Those Who Failed to Recognize Trump as 'Greater Evil' Made a 'Bad Mistake':
Chomsky
"I didn't like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump's
on every issue I can think of"
by
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Noam Chomsky calls the Republican Party "the most dangerous organization in
world history." (Photo: Andrew Rusk/flickr/cc) Leftist scholar Noam Chomsky has
a message for voters who refused to cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton to
prevent Donald Trump from winning the White House: You made a "bad mistake."
On both moral and practical levels, Chomsky told Al Jazeera's Medhi Hasan, the
choice was clear.
"Do you vote against the greater evil if you don't happen to like the other
candidate?" asked Chomsky, who spoke out during the election against Trump's
candidacy-and in fact predicted his rise six years ago. "The answer to that is
yes."
With an argument similar to the one made by political scientist Adolph Reed
prior to the election, Chomsky insists that voters did not have to ignore
Clinton's serious shortcomings in order to recognize Trump as the much more
serious threat.
"I didn't like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump's
on every issue I can think of," the professor emeritus of linguistics at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told Hasan.
Chomsky supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary.
Watch:
Chomsky also objected to philosopher Slavoj Zizek's post-election argument that
Trump's victory would "shake up" status quo. "Terrible point," Chomsky said of
Zizek's take. "It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in
the early 30s."
"He'll 'shake up the system' in bad ways," Chomsky said of the president-elect.
"What it means is now the left-if Clinton had won, she had some progressive
programs. The left could have been organized, to keeping her feet to the fire.
What it will be doing now is trying to protect rights...gains that have been
achieved, from being destroyed. That's completely regressive."
Indeed, Chomsky further warned in the aftermath of the election: "The outcome
placed total control of the government-executive, Congress, the Supreme
Court-in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous
organization in world history."
The GOP "is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of
organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand."
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Those Who Failed to Recognize Trump as 'Greater Evil' Made a 'Bad Mistake':
Chomsky
Published on
Friday, November 25, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Those Who Failed to Recognize Trump as 'Greater Evil' Made a 'Bad Mistake':
Chomsky
"I didn't like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump's
on every issue I can think of"
by
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
. 144 Comments
. Noam Chomsky calls the Republican Party "the most dangerous
organization in world history." (Photo: Andrew Rusk/flickr/cc)
. Leftist scholar Noam Chomsky has a message for voters who refused to
cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton to prevent Donald Trump from winning the
White House: You made a "bad mistake."
. On both moral and practical levels, Chomsky told Al Jazeera's Medhi
Hasan, the choice was clear.
. "Do you vote against the greater evil if you don't happen to like
the other candidate?" asked Chomsky, who spoke out during the election against
Trump's candidacy-and in fact predicted his rise six years ago. "The answer to
that is yes."
. With an argument similar to the one made by political scientist
Adolph Reed prior to the election, Chomsky insists that voters did not have to
ignore Clinton's serious shortcomings in order to recognize Trump as the much
more serious threat.
. "I didn't like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better
than Trump's on every issue I can think of," the professor emeritus of
linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told Hasan.
Chomsky supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary.
Watch:
Chomsky also objected to philosopher Slavoj Zizek's post-election argument that
Trump's victory would "shake up" status quo. "Terrible point," Chomsky said of
Zizek's take. "It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in
the early 30s."
"He'll 'shake up the system' in bad ways," Chomsky said of the president-elect.
"What it means is now the left-if Clinton had won, she had some progressive
programs. The left could have been organized, to keeping her feet to the fire.
What it will be doing now is trying to protect rights...gains that have been
achieved, from being destroyed. That's completely regressive."
Indeed, Chomsky further warned in the aftermath of the election: "The outcome
placed total control of the government-executive, Congress, the Supreme
Court-in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous
organization in world history."
The GOP "is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of
organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand."
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