I went to see Noam Chomsky speak twice back in college in the 80’s. He made NO sense whatsoever. His topics were a hairball of complicated conspiracies, all going back to whoever was in the headlines at the time (usually Ronald Reagan). I realized even during those young years that guys like Chomsky can ONLY survive in universities. Otherwise, he would be living under a bridge somewhere
I really think that the typical leftist believes that if they can’t understand what a person is saying, but that person uses big words, then they think that person is brilliant.
They don’t stop to think that true brilliance and communication skill is to be able to make things work and to be able to communicate in a way that most people can understand you.
Making hard subjects easy to for the majority to understand.
Honestly, it doesn’t say much about the intelligence of a leftist to concede that someone is smarter because they don’t understand them.
My question to you is: how did you manage to stay awake? I've tried to listen to Chomsky prattle on C-Span several times, and it's really a struggle to keep my lids open. Seriously, leftists, Chomsky etal, all have the same narrative: capitalists are evil, greedy bast...s who stole the money that the poor had amassed. Or they got to the big pile of wealth that just magically appeared and refused to share it with anyone. I've actually heard leftists argue those last two points.
Now their narrative is that there is a wealth gap (like there wasn't one before), and the rich have too much money. Unsaid is how much the so-called "unrich" have. There are millions of Americans, like my family, whose children grew up in poor families where several siblings now have wealth in the millions category. Not superrich, but very well off compared to their younger days.