Noam Chomsky, the noted radical and MIT professor emeritus, said the Republican Party has become so extreme in its rhetoric and policies that it poses a “serious danger to human survival.”
“Today, the Republican Party has drifted off the rails,” Chomsky, a frequent critic of both parties, said in an interview Monday with The Huffington Post. “It’s become what the respected conservative political analysts Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein call ‘a radical insurgency’ that has pretty much abandoned parliamentary politics.”
Chomsky cited a 2013 article by Mann and Ornstein published in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, analyzing the polarization of the parties. The authors write that the GOP has become “ideologically extreme, scornful of facts and compromise, and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
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So far this is the election sentiment closest to mine. I agreed with Krugman but thought he was a little tough on Sanders. Because it is bereft of ideas, today’s GOP has nothing left but an appeal to our worst instincts. Many people see through this, of course, but way too many do not. ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ if the GOP runs the table in 2016 with the presidency, the Senate and the House in 2016 because that also means SCOTUS for another generation. At that point we are done with little or no chance of recovery. So, as Chomsky says, 2016 will not be another year to simply huff and say, “it doesn’t really matter.” Put the self-indulgence away, hold your nose if you have to, and vote for the democratic candidate for president. If you’ve got a good socialist or Green candidate running locally, vote for them because that’s where real change starts. Talk about an existential year…