That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
NOAM CHOMSKYNow that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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