Noam Chomsky Quotes
Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last.
Chomsky, Noam. Global Discontents: Conversations on the Important Threats to Our Time. Metropolitan Books, 2017.
The George W. Bush administration was trying to get its prescription drug plan through the House, but when the voting time ran out they did not have enough votes. The Republican leadership, for the first time in American Congressional history would not let the vote end and kept it open for another 3 hours while they persuaded some members to switch their vote. Smith was one of those. He had announced his retirement and his son was running for his seat. Tom Delay promised to support and campaign for his son, if Smith would switch his vote. Cunningham who was being given funds from companies, threatened to finance an opponent and hurt his son’s chances. In addition Cunningham was taking large bribes to steer contracts to incompetent contractors.
San Francisco Machine Boss Abraham At that time, there were very few jurisdictions with primary elections. Most, like California, selected the party candidates at party conventions. At the time the Railroads had bribed or employed enough delegates to the Party Convention to veto any candidate they did not like. And Pardee was in their sights as he was a supporter of the Theodore Roosevelt concept of preservation of public lands. That meant less land for the Railroads to obtain, develop, build a railroad line and station in the area and then sell the land in smaller parcels at a huge profit.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
