Chomsky, as usual nails it...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/noam-chomsky-us-politics_n_4563600.htmlNoam Chomsky: U.S. Politics Are Now 'Pure Savagery'
Author and activist Noam Chomsky said that the congressional controversy over extending unemployment benefits is evidence that American politics has descended into madness.
"The refusal to provide very minimal living standards to people who are caught in this monstrosity -- that's just pure savagery," Chomsky said during an interview with HuffPost Live. "There's no other word for it."
"The general and very severe problem of the economy that's staring us in the face … that has nothing to do with bad apples in Congress," Chomsky said. "These are deep structural problems having to do with, in effect, the neoliberal assault on the population, not just of the United States but of the world, that's taken place in the past generation. There are areas that have escaped, but it's pretty broad."
Chomsky told HuffPost that corporate interests dominate the policy agenda of the Democratic Party, and cited conservative scholar Norm Ornstein's observation that the Republican Party has "drifted off the spectrum" and no longer functions as a serious parliamentary entity.
"It used to be said years ago that the United States is a one-party state -- the business party -- with two factions, Democrats and Republicans," Chomsky said. "That's no longer true. It's still a one-party state -- the business party -- but now it has only one faction. And it's not Democrats, it's moderate Republicans. The so-called New Democrats, who are the dominant force in the Democratic Party, are pretty much what used to be moderate Republicans a couple of decades ago. And the rest of the Republican Party has just drifted off the spectrum."
= new reply since forum marked as read
You put the actual quote in your selection, "The refusal to provide very minimal living standards to people who are caught in this monstrosity -- that's just pure savagery,"
It is indeed savage, but it isn't American politics, it is a small faction controlling the process. We all know our political system is fouled top to bottom, but trying to spread the blame is a completely typical tactic to conceal or divert attention away from the guilty.
If it weren't you posting this, I would never click a Huffpo link.
& R
on this board, whether by Republicans or Democrats, now that Noam Chomsky has said American politics has descended into madness and further said failure to extend unemployment benefits is savagery. Saying our government rules with savagery are words that needed to be said and now needs to be heard by every American imo. 
