(thanks Ron!)
Excerpt:
...
What are
people supposed to think if someone says "I have got
an answer, we have an enemy'? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the
illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are
a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and
the honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. People will be
beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it happens it
will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world
power. Germany was powerful but had more powerful antagonists. I don't
think all this is very far away. If the polls are accurate it is not the
Republicans but the right-wing Republicans, the crazed Republicans, who
will sweep the next election."
"I have
never seen anything like this in my lifetime," Chomsky added.
"I am old enough to remember the 1930s. My whole family was unemployed.
There were far more desperate conditions than today. But it was
hopeful. People had hope. The CIO was organizing. No one wants to say it
anymore but the Communist Party was the spearhead for labor and civil
rights organizing. Even things like giving my unemployed seamstress aunt
a week in the country. It was a life. There is nothing like that now.
The mood of the country is frightening. The level of anger, frustration
and hatred of institutions is not organized in a constructive way. It is
going off into self-destructive fantasies."
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