Here’s a curveball for you all: Noam Chomsky may have been right about a few things. While walking the Queen of the Dog Park this afternoon, I remembered that Chomsky explained how Russia has always been The Main Prize for what he called “the socio-economic elite”, more or less used interchangeably with “capitalist”. It’s been just over 20 years since I read this book, but I remember being really impressed when I read it. I know a lot more now than I did back then, and I’d have to read it again to offer any kind of decent opinion on it, but a quick glance at the wiki page tells me that Chomsky was at least on to something when he wrote this book.
What Chomsky never really gamed out was the Democratic party being hijacked by revolutionary Democratic Socialists, aka “woke”, who were in fact working for the “socio-economic elite” or the “capitalists”.
One thing I’ve observed is that leftist ideologues of high intelligence tend to be good at pointing out problems, aka deconstruction. Their handicap is their ideological fanaticism that leads us to in and out-groups instead of equal protection under the law, increasing and always insidious methods of state control, and the idea that socialist masterminds who fully comprehend all of society and economy (in their own puny minds) believe they have devised a method of comprehensive control that will somehow aid humanity.
I’m still basically a 1990’s liberal. When it comes to policy and core ideology, Trump is, too. He’s no libertarian, and he’s not really a hardcore conservative, either. At any rate, he just made history today in a pretty incredible display of diplomacy the likes of which I’ve never witnessed.
I’d like to thank everyone who contributes to this very interesting thread. t-nation is the best place for conversation I’ve ever found on the entire internet.
I think we all have the same enemy, it’s just that The Enemy has constructed a shield of confusion around themselves that makes it nearly impossible to define who they actually are. Socialists and communists call them “capitalists”, old-guard Republicans pretend they don’t exist, explaining (correctly) that Democrats’ policies are awful, but MAGA is a completely different and unique political movement from anything else I’ve observed in my lifetime, even if it isn’t everything everyone in MAGA wants it to be.
