Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders Not a Radical, He Has Mass Support for Positions on Healthcare & Taxes
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2016
- democracynow.org - During an event Tuesday night, Noam Chomsky was asked about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and said he considered him more of a “New Deal Democrat” than a radical extremist, as some have portrayed him. Chomsky said Sanders’ positions on taxes and health care are supported by a majority of the American public, and have been for a long time. He added that Sanders has "mobilized a large number of young people who are saying look we’re not going to consent any more. If that turns into a continuing organized mobilized force, that could change the country. Maybe not for this election, but in the longer term."
Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and institute professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’s taught for more than half a century. He spoke at the Brooklyn Public Library at an event hosted by Live from the NYPL.
The event also featured, Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. He discusses his role in the country’s financial crisis in his new book, "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future."
Varoufakis will be a guest Thursday on Democracy Now!
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Isn’t that Bernie sitting there on the bottom left?
+JamesThomas good eye!!!
lol
it's a shame how American voting public is more interested in a high school popularity contest instead of leadership and substance
It's far less about popularity and completely about legal bribery.
+Cream Y my family is a long line of military it makes me sick that we have defended this gov.aristocrats
+Silver Back it's more a matter of exposure and successful propaganda
im so glad i got to vote for Bernie sanders here in maine . he is a man of the People
Bernie Sanders for president in 2024!
I noticed that this time he didn't say the Sanders campaign won't be able to sustain a movement. Probably because he's starting to see the roots of it
+Ajay Pastiche good point!
Two respected people talking of another respected person and facts.
What's the world coming to?!
Cheers!
I have been waiting for a robust endorsement of Sanders from Mr. Chomsky.
Chomsky is amazing.
never heard chomsky laugh as loudly or for as long as he did at the start there!
Is there no way to see the full video/event??
Never saw Noam laughing☺️
Bern baby Bern!
Bernie 2020!
YES.
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Bernie 2024!
No what he is saying we should have had public support like this on social and other media's a long time
An icon me thinks
Bernie Sanders positions like mainstream Eisenhower
Love bernie go fore 3 party
Look how 3 years changes Joe’s Good Friend positions!!🤬
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Noam Chomsky says he will vote for Hillary, too. So...
***** Hence, the "too". Both are establishment Progressives, not radicals, indeed, as Chomsky says.
+HK Forty-Seven Ironic, isn't it, funny how 'the right' can be so 'wrong.'
+scentability01 she isn't a progressive
Healthcare is not a right. If healthcare is a right, then you and the public should be helping to pay off their hundred thousand dollar loans!!!
well, that is kind of what tax payer funded education should do, or at least alleviate some of the loan burden. it is kind of hard to do that when college tuition kept going up. there is, of course, grants and scholarships.
+kzwj I think that public tuition would be good for the economic health of the nation. there would be a larger talent pool for existing businesses to select from, new businesses would exist and also acquire some of the talent pool (competition). there would be more workers paying more taxes from their higher paying jobs, which would mean less people relying solely on assistance. there are plenty of untapped intellectual resources languishing just to get by. All of this also helps mitigate much of effects of the random die roll in each of our births.
+kzwj I was not implying they were "intellectuals" in the sense of being smart but in the sense of being an untapped source of otherwise useful minds. I do think that if there would be tax funded higher education, there needs to be some kind guidelines for who can get what help and how much. For instance, I will be starting college in Sept for robotics and I currently work a 12 hr shift on a 4/3/3/4 schedule (clean room in a medical plastics facility). STEM fields should definitely be funded... but I am a bit biased :)
That's the fucking point.
healthcare is not much a bigger deal,socialist are just using it as a platform,jobs is the more important issues,socialist are clueless how to achieved it.
I'm guessing English is your 2nd language.
healthcare is no problem in the US. are you living in a cave. The US pays the most for heathcare but get the least results. medical bills are the #1 reason for bankruptcy
Medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US. So yes, healthcare is a big deal...
+Jörgen Fredriksson people survives whatever happens,its just people always complicates things.