I do not
quite understand who Norm Chomsky is but when he speaks the cognoscenti usually
listen. Cognoscenti on the left you know, not the right. On the right you have
the thugs, the Neanderthals led by “Constitutional” lawyers in carpet slippers
who defend injustice and obscene corporate greed like Canadian Senator Tex Cruz carpetbagging currently in
Texas.
"He said
traditional anarchists opposed the inherent inequality in the relationship
between a government and its people or business owners and their workers, while
Tea Party conservatives promote this imbalance.
“They’re in
favor of having the population subordinated to concentrated private power,
which should have no limits,” Chomsky said. “When they call themselves
anti-government, that means they don’t want government to limit the capacity of
concentrated private power to dominate the society. That’s very far from any
anarchism.”
Tea Party
conservatives present themselves as strict constitutionalist proponents of a
limited government, a claim that Chomsky rejected.
“They do
oppose too much state power, but that’s a bit of a joke; they also support
state power,” he said. “They support the powerful systems that sustain private
power, concentration of power, as opposed to traditional anarchists.”
Chomsky
agreed that the Tea Party was a genuine popular political movement who members
were almost entirely white, “petit bourgeois” business owners who tend to be
highly nationalistic and had racist elements.
The group’s
power and significance comes not from its numbers, he said, but by the heavy
funding it gets from corporate backers and the favorable coverage it receives
from some media outlets.
The Tea
Party’s popularity is essentially a symptom of the rigged political system,
Chomsky argued."
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