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still_one

(92,190 posts)
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 01:09 PM Nov 2016

Noam Chomsky: People Who Didnt Vote For Clinton To Block Trump Made A Bad Mistake

"Chomsky told Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan there’s a “moral issue” in voting “against the greater evil” ― Trump, in this case ― even if you don’t like the other candidate. But he also said there was a factual question regarding this year’s candidates, pointing out Trump and Clinton’s “very different” records.

“I didn’t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump’s on every issue I can think of,” Chomsky said.

Chomsky said in January he’d vote for Clinton if he lived in a swing state, despite his support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who ran against Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary.

“Every Republican candidate is either a climate change denier or a skeptic who says we can’t do it,” Chomsky said. “What they are saying is, ‘Let’s destroy the world.’ Is that worth voting against? Yeah."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/noam-chomsky-donald-trump_us_58385d81e4b000af95ee1fda

Good work to those self-identified progressives who refused to vote for Hillary, you have just put at risk women's rights, civil rights, labor rights, environmental rights, etc.

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Noam Chomsky: People Who Didnt Vote For Clinton To Block Trump Made A Bad Mistake (Original Post) still_one Nov 2016 OP
No shit Sherlock. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2016 #1
I yelled this incessantly for months before the election, for all the good it did Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #2
Chomsky doesn't even realize that he encouraged people to vote against Hillary. stopbush Nov 2016 #3
Exactly. LisaL Nov 2016 #4

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
3. Chomsky doesn't even realize that he encouraged people to vote against Hillary.
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 03:25 PM
Nov 2016

When you say things like "I didn't like Clinton AT ALL," you are saying there is no way to cast a positive vote for her. Your only option is to vote negatively against Trump.

How stupid on Chomsky's part! He could have said that he found her positions worth voting for. Instead, he gives us the "better than the apocalypse" version of a non-endorsement.

And he'd vote for her if he lived in a swing state? First off, if you live in a solid blue state but spend your time bad mouthing Hillary it's going to be heard by people living in swing states who then vote against her. Second, you assume people know they live in a swing state. How many people who voted for Trump in WI did so believing that WI was a safe D State when it came to presidential elections? And third - Chomsky should look up the phrase "damning with faint praise."

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