Noam Chomsky blasts modern GOP as extremists whose only policy is ‘don’t do anything or bomb’

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There are no GOP candidates that have even a “semblance of rationality” competing for the nomination, he said.

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He said “distinguished, respected conservative commentators” have described the current GOP as a “radical insurgency which has abandoned parliamentary politics” whose only policies are “don’t do anything or bomb.”

Chomsky said during the neoliberal period — which scholars think of as starting with Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan in the U.S. in which the private sector was strengthened via deregulation and privatization — both the Democrats and Republicans shifted to the right.

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Their solution has led to the spectacle today where the idea of a “moderate Republican” seems impossible, as the party’s base demands more and more intransigence and extreme positions on issues like LGBT rights and social welfare programs.

“They had to turn to other constituencies which are there but were never politically mobilized,” Chomsky said. “The Christian evangelicals, the nativists who are afraid ‘they’re taking our country away from us,’ people who are so terrified they have to carry a gun into a coffee shop. That’s their base, essentially.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/noam-chomsky-blasts-modern-gop-as-extremists-whose-only-policy-is-dont-do-anything-or-bomb/