Often controversial, yet one of the most respected and vastly quoted scholars, Noam Chomsky has some pretty condemning words for the current Republican Party and GOP presidential candidates. Matt Ferner with Huffington Post writes:
“Today, the Republican Party has drifted off the rails,” Chomsky, a frequent critic of both parties, said in an interview Monday with The Huffington Post. “It’s become what the respected conservative political analysts Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein call ‘a radical insurgency’ that has pretty much abandoned parliamentary politics.”
Chomsky goes so far to say that the current Republican rhetoric and policies pose a “serious danger to human survival.” In regard to climate change, 97% of scientists say the crisis is real and caused by humans, yet none of the GOP candidates seem to take climate change seriously—with some being outright climate deniers.
"What they are saying is, let's destroy the world. Is that worth voting against? Yeah," Chomsky said in a recent interview with Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera English's "UpFront."
As for the democratic candidates, Chomsky said if he lived in a swing state, he’d vote for front-runner Hillary Clinton, though he’s made it clear he’s against some her military policies, including the use of drones. Chomsky says Sen. Bernie Sanders is "honest and committed New Dealer" who has “the best policies,” but expresses it’s less likely for this world to accept a candidate of Sander’s caliber.
Chomsky has more to say in Ferner’s piece and a plethora to say on many important issues. Though he most likely has as many adversaries as he does admirers, no one can deny his integrity and courage to speak his mind, regardless of what others think. And that’s a rare and good thing.