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Noam Chomsky at Chicago’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, hosted by Haymarket Books and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.
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Noam Chomsky (born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books. He has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, and particularly international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky has been a writer for Z projects since their earliest inception, and is a tireless supporter of our operations.
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I don’t get ‘this lesser of 2 evils’ rot??? Why would we ever want to validate the claims of this system to be democratic when it simply is not? It’s much better to fight for a real democracy than to participate in a fraud where ‘winners’ of monied selections are declared even when their vote total is lesser than that of their opponents. Where money buys it all.
And don’t get me going about how 2 states with 66,000,000 get only 4 senators while several dozen states with about the same population get 48 or so senators. There really is no place to talk of supposedly ‘lesser of 2 evils’ here.
The Democratic Party and Republican Party candidates all support this lack of real democracy in our country. To oppose this make believe faux democracy you can’t act as if it is somehow actually legitimate.
I attended this presentation and was struck by how Chomsky’s words of dire warning about a nuclear war seemed at odds with his previously published advice about lesser evil voting. He advised voting for Hillary, who he thought was the lesser evil, in swing states. HALLE/CHOMSKY: AN EIGHT POINT BRIEF FOR LEV (LESSER EVIL VOTING) http://johnhalle.com/outragesandinterludes/?p=1065
Compared to Trump, it seems that Hillary is much closer to and allied with the power brokers who probably will continue creating the conditions that make the chances of further war and even nuclear war (with Obama’s new tactical, more “usable” nuclear warheads) a real possibility; so voting for Clinton is not an option.