x Robert Hackett from nationalobserver.com shared with thanks
At first, it sounded like a rhetorical hype, the kind you hear in bar debates. But Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned public intellectual, made a plausible case for a chilling assessment of the most powerful man in the world.
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Voting for US President Donald Trump is worse than voting for Hitler, Chomsky told interviewer Linda Solomon Wood, during a webinar sponsored by Canada’s National Observer in April. “Hitler was perhaps the worst criminal in the history of mankind.” He wanted to murder millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, homosexuals, others ”. But what does Trump want to do? He wants to destroy the prospects of an organized human life. “
The 91-year-old linguist and social critic remains remarkably optimistic about future options, but only if we collectively confront the three existential crises
he identified in a 2019 interview with the National Observer: nuclear war, global warming, and (prophetically) pandemics. He warned then that humanity has to decide “if organized human society will survive a couple more generations.” Trump is exercising the “ultimate sadism” and exacerbating all three threats, Chomsky now claims.
Consider Trump’s response to COVID-19. Critics have rightly noted inconsistent messages, political stances and divisions, fights with governors, and ignoring medical authorities.
Chomsky adds a lesser-known dimension: While “the pandemic is raging, people are dying, and hospitals can’t keep up,” the Trump administration proposed a budget that would continue to cut parts of the government related to health, such as the Centers for The diseases. Control.
