Noam Chomsky Quotes
'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it.
Chomsky, Noam. Understanding Power. The New Press, 2002.
He made this statement a few days after Donald Trump had won the Presidency and one of his slogans was “Drain the Swamp of Washington DC. While there was almost universal support for “Draining the Swamp” among Trump’s supporters, the President Elect had never specified exactly what specific changes should be made. Almost all Americans at that time were in favor of reform of the political system, but there was very little concordance on which areas are most important to reform and on the details of the changes that should be made.
Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885
Trump often used the phrase "Drain the swamp" in his campaigning to mean get ride of the establishment figures who had, for the most part, dominated politics, for decades. When he was elected, he had to appoint a cabinet, but when he did so, it was almost exclusivly made up of people who had been a part of the political and corporate establishment -- the swamp.
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.
