Chomsky: In swing states vote Obama
People should vote against McCain and for Obama – but without illusions
Chomsky says while it’s true that the two parties are essentially like factions of one party – the party of business – the differences do matter to ordinary people. If you are living in a swing state, there is nothing wrong with picking the lesser of two evils.
Read more on this video from CommonDreams: The Disillusioned Reality of the American Choice
Continue reading below the fold for Part 2..
Chomsky On The Economy
In part two of their interview, Paul Jay asks Prof. Noam Chomsky to weigh-in on the dominant subject of the day, the economic crisis. While Prof. Chomsky agrees that the current crisis is a very serious one that will have broad implications for the broader society, he points out that the foreseeable Medicare-induced economic crisis will “dwarf” the current one in magnitude. Furthermore, Prof. Chomsky develops his contention that democracy is hindered by unrestrained free markets. While on the other hand, state-restricted markets are democratic by design in that they allow people take control–through their government–of financial institutions to force them to include externalities and risks to the broader population in their decision-making. These factors are such that profit-seeking enterprises will not accommodate them when left to their own volition, given that free markets do not put a price on these externalities.
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1 Comment
October 21, 2008 at 1:25 pm
This guy has more cognitive powers on the political process than McCain and the entire Republican party combined. If you view his bio on wiki, you will more than impressed.