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April 29, 2015 by Ted 25 Comments

Noam Chomsky – America is NOT a Democracy

America is not a democracy, nor was it intended to be.
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  1. Jason Rumley says

    April 29, 2015 at 8:29 am

    Democracy is mob rule and much more suited for small societies of the same
    ethnicity. Our republic isn’t perfect but we have one of the oldest
    constitutions in the world so I’d say we’re doing alright.

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  2. stopdemockery says

    April 29, 2015 at 9:23 am

    Chomsky doesn’t care about Us.

    There has never been a real democracy on Earth. Even in ancient Greece most
    of “the People” were slaves. Real democracy will be governance designed
    to DEFINE and FULFILL the true will of the People. When real democracy
    emerges it will trigger our prophesied thousand years of peace, justice,
    truth and prosperity for Posterity, because that’s what our vast majority
    wants. Don’t you? If you’d like to end the rule by the psychotic
    banksters and their corrupt politicians, please, vote for the Democracy
    Petition to End Political Corruption at
    https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Humanity_Start_real_democracy
    Please, help spread this message. Thank you. 

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  3. poko piko says

    April 29, 2015 at 9:42 am

    also called Aristocracy!!! back at 2500 BC in Greece where aristocrats held
    the power of their country before Democracy was born

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  4. Kevin Kauffman says

    April 29, 2015 at 10:19 am

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  5. jr. privecy says

    April 29, 2015 at 11:12 am

    A perfect, if somewhat cynical definition of a democracy is two ravenous
    wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner!

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  6. Sig ACP says

    April 29, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    A Republic is much better than a Democracy. The Law of the Land
    rules/restrains the government, while it protects individual freedom.

    Democracy is mob rule, which means 51% can take the rights from the 49%.
    It’s wrong.

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  7. uadfa says

    April 29, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    The more I hear from Noam Chomsky, the less he sounds like an
    “Anarcho-Syndicalist” and more like a Marxist Liberal. America is a
    “Constitutional Republic”, it’s about securing individual liberty. The
    founders hated a direct Democracy, because it always turned into mobbed
    rule. Mob rule always leads to chaos and the downfall of a nation. Such as
    in Greece and Rome. Noam Chomsky should stick to linguistics and critiquing
    foreign policy, because he knows little about the functions of government
    and economics.

    Now all of his raging fanatics are going to hound me for this comment.

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  8. bo summers says

    April 29, 2015 at 12:30 pm

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  9. hawkesworth1712 says

    April 29, 2015 at 12:56 pm

    The US didn’t even become a faux democracy until 1924.

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  10. Mind Fever says

    April 29, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    This guy is always so enlightening. He speaks with this rare clarity.

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  11. cbraat27 says

    April 29, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    I don’t know of an effort in government to disenfranchise blacks. To make
    them FEEL disenfranchised gives them a reason to support half the
    government and feel as though they are part of the process. The new way to
    control the masses is through illusions and propaganda.

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  12. TheeUnidentified says

    April 29, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    “The ‘responsible’ class of men…” Ha..love how Chomsky is a walking
    encyclopedia of astonishingly anti-democratic quotes from a very long line
    of US leaders & statists. I recall the Gore vs Bush coup (PNAC) and agree
    re public indifference. Strangely enough, I recall some of the more heated
    debates were with those who, although openly expressed a lack of concern
    one way or the other, EAGERLY joined the anti “conspiracy theorists”
    bandwagon, facts be damned. American priorities, ya know…

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  13. vahe stepanian says

    April 29, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    @hugolescargot Exactly. couldnt have said it better.

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  14. Ben Schockley says

    April 29, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    … that would be part of the reason why it isn’t a democracy.

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  15. MegaKolen says

    April 29, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    Its called MEDIAN VOTER THEOREM. Competing factions always converge to the
    median voter. It’s actually a surprise as to why they don’t converge
    perfectly. Chomsky really isn’t saying anything controversial or unknown.

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  16. kwanjin1 says

    April 29, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    I get what you’re trying to say but it doesn’t address the fact that there
    is some level of functional democracy and essentially having a voice and
    using it is with some intelligence is too threatening to these entities who
    are working to cut it down further. The intelligent practice of democracy
    is essentially the greatest threat to their overall plan of
    disfranchisement of non-republican voters. To the extreme republican right
    non-republican voters are just ‘enemy’ voices to be eliminated.

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  17. Brent Stuart says

    April 29, 2015 at 4:35 pm

    Thank you again Prof. Chomsky. As usual, a penetrating illucidation.
    globalcooperativeforumDOTnet

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  18. vahe stepanian says

    April 29, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Noam Ccomsky the brightest star in the cerbral darkness of USA

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  19. gamulea says

    April 29, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    Clever guy.

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  20. John morsey says

    April 29, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    Democracy without socialism is a sham.

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  21. Ben Schockley says

    April 29, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    Have you seen what the Republicans have been up to in a variety of states?
    It’s somewhat similar to how the southern states disenfranchised blacks for
    about a century after the Civil War freed the slaves.

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  22. dizzythegreat says

    April 29, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    I officially hate America. Hate.

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  23. rogersterlingonlsd2 says

    April 29, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    You completely don’t get what he said. Most people knew the elections were
    fixed in the first place, so why would it matter that one faction of the
    elite stole the election? As for your second point, you completely missed
    what he exactly said ( honestly I missed it the first time around). “75% of
    the public didn’t know what’s going on” phrase was him being
    tongue-in-cheek. Chomsky meant that people didn’t see the election as a
    real election, since the choices were limited. Your third point is..

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  24. dxdaero says

    April 29, 2015 at 7:27 pm

    Voice and equality are important to democratic participation. In a
    meaningful democracy, the people’s voice must be clear and loud – clear so
    that policymakers understand citizen concerns and loud so that they have to
    pay attention to what is said. Since democracy implies not only
    governmental action in response to citizen interests but also equal
    consideration of the interests of each citizen, democratic participation
    also must be equal.

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  25. titemike1 says

    April 29, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    We’re all free! Free to be slaves! Trading our ball & chain for
    chains-of-debt, we’re free to bleed we’re free to sweat. Free to be lied
    to, and vote for whomever they choose. Free to be fools, and used as war
    tools. Free to have the illusion of choice, free to bury our girls and
    boys. Free but blind to the irony, of spreading “freedom” when we’re not
    free. When all we spread is hypocrisy, and this sytem of slavery we call
    democracy.

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