Latest Chomsky interview- Social Change Today

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There is nothing that gripes my ass worse than the media calling WarCriminal conservative. It is some major thoughtherding by a controlled media to let stand the idea that WarCriminal is a conservative. I chose these 4 paragraphs from the interview because Chomsky the linguist professor doesn't play along with that lie. From http://tinyurl.com/74dju

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On the other hand, there’s a backlash. It was very quick, starting in the early 70’s, and it was across the spectrum. Not what’s called "liberal" and "conservative," whatever those names mean, but across the elite spectrum there was deep concern about the democratizing and civilizing effects of the 60’s. That’s why the 60’s are now recorded and taught as the time of troubles or the birth of error. The troubles were that the country was just becoming too free and democratic. It was actually called a "crisis of democracy," which meant too much democracy.

The number of lobbyists in Washington just exploded in the early 70’s in an effort to make sure that legislation was tightly controlled, that it fit the business agenda. The proliferation of new right wing think-tanks, like the American Enterprise Institute, tried to control the range of permissible thoughts. There was a massive campaign to take over radio and shift TV to the right.

Even the international financial system has changed, so as to permit free capital flows, which had not been permitted in the earlier period. And it was well understood by economists that one affect of that is to restrict the range of democratic options. It gives investors essentially the ability to act like what is sometimes called a "virtual senate." They can pass judgment on a country’s policies and, if they don’t like them, they can destroy the economy.

There are many signs of movement towards a more repressive authoritarian State and it happens to be extreme in the Bush Administration. They call themselves conservatives, but that’s an insult to conservativism. They are right wing, reactionary statists. They want a very powerful State to control personal life, the economic world and international society, and they use force if necessary. There’s nothing conservative about that.

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1. Thanks for posting-- his words give me the chills

Chomsky hits the nail on the head, as usual.

"They are right wing, reactionary statists. They want a very
powerful State to control personal life, the economic world
and international society, and they use force if necessary.
There’s nothing conservative about that."

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2. And even with the "virtual senate", wealth needs to contol...

the media, and, IMHO, the counting of the votes.

Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.