Posted on 08/06/2017 5:13:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Noam Chomsky has generally been one of the strongest intellectual voices of the left for decades. But he has an unexpected take on the growing scandal around President Trump and the alleged “collusion” with Russia. The 88-year-old MIT professor Chomsky, a celebrated linguist and philosopher, thinks that the Russia story is a major distraction and it’s wrong for Democrats to focus their energies on it.
In an April 6th conversation, organized by the American Association of Geographers, Chomsky characterized President Trump as not having a strong center of beliefs, while “his only ideology is ‘me’. What is instead happening is that Republicans, led by Paul Ryan, whom Chomsky called “the most dangerous and savage group in the country, are implementing “savage” programs that they planned for decades designed to favor the rich and “kick everyone else in the face.”
This kind of planned attack is supported by how Trump’s cabinet was designed, according to Chomsky.
“Every cabinet official was chosen to destroy anything of human significance in that part of the government. It’s so systematic that it can’t be unplanned. I doubt that Trump planned it,” says Chomsky in the conversation.
And to distract attention from their real agenda, the Trump team is running a “two-tiered operation,” claims Chomsky, with advisor Stephen Bannon in charge of “the effort to try to make sure you capture the headlines.” With one outrageous incident at the White House or incendiary tweet succeeding another, President Trump is keeping the media occupied and people talking. And what happens is that they very soon forget whatever the latest scandal was and move on, while the real issues get left unexplored.
See the segment of the interview on Trump and Ryan here:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Chomsky also called out Democrats for “cooperating in a very striking way”. The biggest part of that cooperation is their insistence on stoking the Russian scandal and making it a major distraction from more significant problems. Chomsky thinks that finding a common ground with Russians is essential even if you believe they hacked the 2016 elections. The United States has not only influenced elections, it has even installed military dictatorships overseas and cannot claim high moral ground here, explains the professor.
A better way would be to look at what happened through the prism of diplomacy, even if members of the Trump team met with Russians, including the now-infamous meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. In fact, President Trump’s attempts to improve relations with Russia is “one of the few decent things Trump has been doing,” says Chomsky.
“So maybe members of his transition team contacted the Russians. Is that a bad thing?” expounds Professor Chomsky. “Recent ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, had a blog where he pointed out that ‘It’s exactly what you should be doing. It’s the job of ambassadors and diplomats coming in. There are serious problems and tensions you want to talk over to see if there’s anything you can do about them. Instead of just building up force and violence.’ That’s what the democrats are focusing on, and meanwhile all these other things are going on and they’re not saying anything about them.”
In a recent interview with RT, Chomsky doubled down on his criticism of the Republican Party, which he previously called an organization “dedicated to the destruction of organized human life on Earth.”
"The position of the savage wing of American capitalism, the Republican Party, is really striking, they are really racing toward a precipice. Has there really been an organization in history that has dedicated itself to the destruction of human life?" said Chomsky. ”The US is racing toward the precipice, while the world is trying to do something.”
Here’s the full interview with Professor Chomsky at the American Association of Geographers:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Hunh
“Chomsky thinks that finding a common ground with Russians is essential even if you believe they hacked the 2016 elections. “
Still an old Skool Commie.
Shhh. Don't tell Chuckie and Nan. Let them follow the misdirection.
RATs will claim Noam is in the beginning of dementia.
What Russia scandal?
He probably thinks he’s still carrying water for the Soviets.
“Has there really been an organization in history that has dedicated itself to the destruction of human life?”
Yep, he really said that.
Are Schumer and Pelosi still running the show? I thought Maxine Waters had taken over.
At least we can now tell when Maxi gets a new pack of Depends, she gets very animated....
“In a recent interview with RT, Chomsky doubled down on his criticism of the Republican Party, which he previously called an organization “dedicated to the destruction of organized human life on Earth.”
I have met the man, back in the 1970s. He’s a Marxist nut who thinks he’s the next best thing since sliced bread, when it comes to “social” issues.
His expertise is and was really linguistics. His theories on that topic have proven wrong. Yet he remains at MIT for some strange reason. Maybe because MIT is in Boston and Boston is so Liberal and since the media is so Leftist, Chomsky is a Leftist and he likes be get attention as if he was some grand philosopher, so the media loves to lift him up. He merely applies Marxist dialectics to philosophy. In sum, he’s an over-rated Leftist big mouth the media likes to give attention to.
As long as they’re listening to him, they’re not listening to someone who can actually help them dig themselves out of the hole they’re in.
I have never forgiven Chomsky for his lying and dissembling in pursuit of the excuse over the Cambodian democide. I always thought that he should have suffered the same fate as those he consigned to the memory hole of history. Say, chopped to pieces with hoes, shovels and pickaxes.
He criticizes Trump for not having core beliefs. As if the democrats had any. What a clown.
“What Russia scandal?”
It’s the one where Democrats paid Russians for fake dirt on Trump to justify government surveillance of his campaign in an attempt to effect the election. The scandal is that Trump is being investigated but the known perpetrators are not.
F Chomski.
He is now retired along with most of his Linguistics work, AFAIK.
Pope Marx rulz though...
What an idiot Chomsky is about everything. On this one tiny point he is accidentally right.
Chomsky was tenured. The CPUSA loved him so he was always a GO TO GUY for the NYT et. al.
Yeah ...
Like all commie so-called philosophers in Chomsky’s
utopian society he would be among the pampered elite
sharing the limited goods with those other phonies
who have worked their way into the goods distribution
leadership group. Nobody who promotes communism ever
sees themselves as just a worker bee.
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