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in reply to diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

For Chomsky fans/followers...
This is from my article/report on a presentation by him, to psychologists:

"And that's a big part of neoliberal reaction... this policy is known to ... sharply intensify wealth while the rest of the population basically went backwards.... The people recognized correctly that they're just not represented. A large majority of the population since Reagan years [has asked], 'Who runs the country?' The answer is: A few big interests looking out for themselves....


All of this leads to disillusion and anger, ... breakdown, undermining accommodation and solidarity. It's accompanied by major attacks against the fundamental institutions which allow individuals to protect themselves, primarily unions.... The right to be represented. The people are being harmed by provision of the harsh anti-labor in the United States, particularly 'right to work' rules .... [echoing the] 19th century ... Republican Party. Slavery...and so on...

And now ... Farley asked the same question he had earlier asked Aaron T. Beck:

QU: "If you were invited to the White House to dine with President Trump, what would you want to chat about?"

Chomsky: "I'd tell him that he's actually doing very well. He's very successful in carrying out the program - that is his program and that of the extremist right-wing Republican party that he's part of - that he has succeeded in his main goal of focusing media on him and his antics.... And while he's doing that his associates in Congress are carrying out some of the most savage programs in recent American history... egregious.... like taking children away from their parents, taking food stamps away from mothers with dependent children..." ....

"Evil doesn't describe it... There's just nothing like it.... We cannot sanction this.... conscious, knowing what to do to undermine the prospect of organized human life.... There's been nothing like it in human history. Never!"


Reference/source: : fenichel.com/Chomsky2018.shtml