Noam Chomsky: A Republican president means doom

[G_j]

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/10/noam_chomsky_a_republican_president_means_doom/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

In a new interview with Truthout’s CJ Polychroniou, renowned MIT linguist and longtime political activist Noam Chomsky conveyed his fear that the election of a Republican president in 2016 could further destabilize U.S. international relations, jeopardizing the security of the nation and ripped the notion of “democracy promotion” as a driving force of U.S. foreign policy.

“Supporting democratization (in reality, not rhetoric),” Chomsky explained, will likely have “consequences that the U.S. would not favor.”

“That is why when the U.S. supports “democracy”; it is ‘top-down’ forms of democracy in which traditional elites linked to the US remain in power.”

Chomsky cited the work of former Reagan official Thomas Carothers to demolish the myth of “democracy promotion” as a primary goal of U.S. foreign policy.

“The record shows quite clearly that it is scarcely an element in policy, and quite often democracy is considered a threat – for good reasons, when we look at popular opinion,” Chomsky explained, pointing to popular opinion in support of an Iranian nuclear weapon among a democratizing Egyptian populace during the Arab Spring.

“Public opinion often favors social reform of the kind that would harm US-based multinationals,” he noted, adding, “And much else”:

[Octafish]

1. U.S. Foreign Policy is based on an ideal...

He with the Gold, Rules.

[hifiguy]

2. The election of any imperialist

will have exactly the same results regardless of the letter after their name.

Capitalism and imperialism are the problem.