Noam Chomsky claims Trump may stage terrorist attacks to shore up support

[SyKoKo]

a great idea

maybe Trump can BLOW up a DNC meeting or 3

http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.780287?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Rightguide]

Noam "noam sayin" Chromsky can be found here:

http://www.cpusa.org/article/some-left-intellectuals-fall-short-on-strategy-and-tactics/

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm having trouble deciding who is more whack...



busybody...

or​

Noam Chomsky

 

[Rightguide]

I'm having trouble deciding who is more whack...



busybody...

or​

Noam Chomsky

I think the simple discussion of plans to advance a terror attack would tire old Noam out.

 

[hashtag46]

Quote from the article:

"According to Chomsky, once voters will see Trump for the "con man" he is, and that his promises were "built on sand," Trump will go to extreme measures to rally support.

1.In Chomsky's opinion, once things start to go wrong, Trump will have to find other targets to point the finger at, so he will say “‘Well, I’m sorry, I can’t bring your jobs back because these bad people are preventing it.’ And the typical scapegoating goes to vulnerable people: immigrants, terrorists, Muslims and elitists, whoever it may be. And that can turn out to be very ugly.”

2.“I think that we shouldn’t put aside the possibility that there would be some kind of staged or alleged terrorist act, which can change the country instantly,” Chomsky said in an interview with AlterNet's Jan Frel."


While I agree that there's a very high possibility for no.1 (his rhetoric and campaign attest to that, and those are the dangers with electing a populist), no.2 is so inappropriate.
How can he even say that? I have no words.

I remember clearly that my first "political awakening" and interest in current events happened after I stumbled accidentally on some of his talks on youtube.

But after 2 years of Lit., I realise that, while he's undoubtly one of the world's leading intellectuals, he's so -intentionally- partial when it comes to politics.

 

[hashtag46]

Noam "noam sayin" Chromsky can be found here:

http://www.cpusa.org/article/some-left-intellectuals-fall-short-on-strategy-and-tactics/

Excellent link. While left leaning himself, the author made some good points.

QUOTE:

"The left is blessed with a plethora of astute writers and powerful voices against capitalism and its predatory policies. Like many others in left and progressive circles I look forward to their interventions. They offer both insight and inspiration.

But as good social analysts as they are, some of them – Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges come to mind – come up short at the political level. By that I mean that, other than insisting that people on the left resist the predatory actions of capitalism, they offer little in the way of strategic and tactical thinking on how to build an enduring mass movement.
As far as divisions in the ruling class, little is mentioned.

Few of these analysts emphatically say that the nation’s working people – the multi-racial working class and its organized sector – have to be in the forefront of the democratic and revolutionary movement for it to succeed.
What they put a lot of stock in – I would say even go overboard about – is expressions of resistance on the part of radicalized young people."


Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges were the two public intellectuals whose speeches I stumbled upon accidentally on youtube, and who opened my mind A Lot.
But somehow down the line I started having a non-descript feeling that there was something missing or biased in their rhetoric. For me, the article just put the dots on the ii's.

 

[hashtag46]

In saying that, the author of the article that you quoted, Rightguide is fucking clueless when it comes to economics and history/ politics,

He confuses the neoliberal - corporatist - globalist movement that arose in the 70's and which morphed currently into this system that encourages corruption at a high level, with capitalism:

Quote:
"The left is blessed with a plethora of astute writers and powerful voices against capitalism and its predatory policies. "