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  • Reagan left office with an approval rating of 65%. That is one of the many things he has gotten wrong about him. What an old nutt he is.

  • @bdjoh011 first, your info is wrong about his approval rate. according to the gallup polls, he averaged about 52 percent which is normal compared to his peers, and he certainly didn't leave with a 65%. second, Chomsky was talking about the relevance and popularity of Reagan's policies between today and his time. And today, people talk about Reagan's policies more than his time, quite disproportionately actually. Do you hear us talking about Johnson's Vietnam policies today?

  • @anaselhaouat Actually it was 64%. BTW, how is your "messiah" Obama been doing?

  • Mass immigration is destroying the west. The left is importing a new population in the west to vote for it's politicians.

  • I hate Republicans...but I know Obama does not have the man power nor the will to help the middle class or to make America good for the 99% as opposed to the 1%. So what can we do?

  • @dalecampbl6

    Find your local Green Party and get involved. Find your local Occupy and get involved. If you don't have a local either of these, now is a perfect time to start them.

    Best,

    RS 

  • @dalecampbl6 I hate Democrats....lazy idiots.

  • @bdjoh011 okay, let's look at the facts of democrat leaders v. republican leaders....GW BUSH...couldn't get into UT AUSTIN but had his daddy open the backdoor into Harvard MBA. Obama...COlumbia+Harvard Law (magna cum laude), BILL CLINTON (YALE LAW SCHOOL)...I mean seriously...com'on...your Republican leaders are smart at one thing...screwing the middle class by making us work harder for less...now that's talent indeed.

  • @bdjoh011 go ahead buddy, don't invest in Social Security...take all that money out and go invest it in a 401K or do your own investing...aside form the 8-10 hrs you work each day, spend another 8-10 to make sure you are maxing your investments. yeah go for you idiot. If it weren't for the liberal mentality, we'd still have slavery, we'd still have women and 18 year olds cannot vote...we'd still have segregation, we'd still have a caste system...we have astronomical costly insurance.

  • The public airways are expensive and only corporations can afford the license. It's as if the public airways are really private. Why can't the government have a channel where candidates can present their platforms and candidacy at no charge, instead of needing a billion dollars? That would get money out of politics, to a great extent, and candidates can get to work when they get to Washington instead of spending all there time raising money for re-election.

  • wild spending, biggest debt, sounds like all socialist countries in Europe nowdays.

  • @quezcatol "socialist"

  • Noam Chomsky deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his work for peace, justice and democracy. He is good example of a scholar speaking truth to power. In my government job if you speak the truth to mere mid level

    bureacrats, your career is the ruined.

  • Noam Chomsky deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his work for peace, justice and democracy.

  • I think people give too much credence to presidents. They have no power they are simply actors and puppets. Although Obama is the biggest piece of shit of them all because he actually deceived and betrayed so many people.

  • When the country was "celebrating" Ronald Scumfuck Reagan's 100th birthday this past February, I proudly placed a handmade sign on a fence in my neighborhood which read

    'Ronald Reagan responsible for murdering >200,000 Salvadorans & Guatemalans in the 1980s'

    I knew there'd be so much ass-kissing going on in the media that someone had remind the world of the doddering old senile dolt's true legacy.

    I'm proud of what I did. I'd piss on Reagan's grave, but he is not worthy of my piss.

  • @bapyou Hear, here!

  • I'm so happy that he's going to be a one term President. You have no idea.

    He got some balls to come running back to Progressives and the base after the way he treated us over these past 3 years. Take a defeat loser because you aren't getting my support

  • this man would make a great global statesman

  • @bagoodtube and dissolve all states :D. We dont need leaders, we need reason and truth. Thanks to Chomsky for providing those

  • great words of wisdom ,and the courage to speak them..

  • I really want to meet Noam Chomsky. During these last couple weeks in school, we talked about his language contributions of "phonemes" and "morphemes".

  • What sort of thing is relentless, poisonous in application of tongue, and dumb to insight?

    Perhaps an industrial-strength insect. The stupid thing devours you, and there is nothing you can do about it, because its his kind of world, not yours.

    I' mean to describe Chomsky, but I guess Chomsky could replace himself with his enemy.

  • don't feed the trolls. they are the ones whose accounts contribute nothing but virtriol and idiocy. at least some of us post videos sometimes.

  • @SIGN666 Yeah! Because Egypt has got it goin' on! Woo Hoo! Stupid ass.

  • @MrAlienlovechild What a witty retort. You simply MUST speak publicly. Moron.

  • Noam Chomsky is just a jealous nut

  • @YoungIvyScholar Jealous of what. LOL

  • Who the hell is this Noam Chomsky LIAR? Reagan was anti-free market capitalism? What? More unpopular that Carter? He destroyed the U.S. Economy? What the fuck is this commie smoking? Reagan was w one of the best presidents America has ever had. Chomsky was ACTUALLY describing Carter. Noam Chomsky is a bald-faced LIAR.

  • @aivilik look up the washington consensus and see what sort of anti free market capitalism you are talking but some of the lines i dont agree with chomsky is that the crisis that was talked after he left office does not make sense. sure the economy was in shit but not compared to the great depression or the current economic crisis

  • @aivilik that's just idiotic. there is evidence for everything chomsky says, unlike the tea party line you're parroting.

  • @aivilik You're wrong. Socialism was very successful in Spain before the capitalist fascists got aid from Hitler and started massacring people. And it seems to be doing very well in northern Europe today (which all polls show are some of the happiest places on earth). You should educate yourself before forming opinions.

  • @zoso820 Ummm...those aren't exactly socialist countries. Communism has never worked anywhere.

  • @gnarlyb Umm no. Historical fact does not agree with you.

  • @aivilik i think you just proved his point now go worship at your altar and leave the critical thinking to others

  • This is not true, the economy boomed, because of Reagan and reaganomics. Not to mention the fact the he pratically ended the Cold War, plus the people that were being held prisoner were released the DAY that he took office. These are only a few examples. Furthermore, with how he is condemning Reagan, I sure as hell hope he doesn't think OBAMA is a good president.

  • @Phatnaru0001 Chomsky is a total nutjob. He is a senile old fool. Historical fact does not match up with most of what he has said here.

  • Hegemony or Survival is a favourite, I agree with Hugo Chvez who held up the book at the UN saying "it was great book which reads easily" and advised everyone to read it.

    "Understanding Power" was my first book or his. a large volume, the title is self explanatory, you will when you've read it. .

  • @barrygreenbank You agree with Chavez. That's like saying you agree with Hitler. Imbecile.

  • @aivilik Communism works on paper, not on people. Communism cannot exist in the real world.

  • does anybody have any suggestions on a first chomsky book to read for somewhat of a newcomer to politics?

  • @TheVeggieMonstah There are several books that are short and very easy to read on various topics. They are all Interviews with David Barsamian. I would recommend reading those before getting into a more in-depth analysis. Then, I would start with hope and prospects as it is the most recent and will be relevant.

  • @aquaboogieMD oh alright, thanks. i was debating on whether to read hegemony or survival because it is from the earlier 2000's or hope and prospects because like you said, it is the most relevant. i went hegemony, but ill definitely look into the interviews after im done. thanks!

  • my favorite professor on my favorite news program -- always a pleasure/enlightenment to listen to (and repeatedly, too) and learn from

    --

    THANKS 4 the upload !

  • I don't believe America has the economic ability to retain its number one spot anymore, it will most likely be number 2 or 3 in 20 years because its leaders are too greedy, money needs to be circulated around other people in order to generate wealth and for greedy people to understand that is not possible, their brains are horned in on very specific tasks and do not have the available cognitive work space to think about such things. Perhaps increasing living standards is all people can hope for.

  • @yuri35435 No, no, no, you dumbass commie. How would you feel if the government came to you and told you that you had to sacrifice in order to support people who made a habit of sitting on their asses doing NOTHING? Stupid.

  • @aivilik First off, you clearly don't know jack shit about real communism, just the idea you were fed in this country. Most examples of communism in this world are far from the ideals set forth by Marx, Russia for example was more "bolschevism" as it was called and China and Russia today are just as capitalist as the US. Meanwhile, you have an idea of capitalism as a free market and/or a meritocracy where each gets what they earn, but that idea is false and has been demonstrated to be so. READ.

  • @ML4wr3nc3

    Yes, just as the U.S. is nothing near ideal "free market", soviet russia was never ideal 'communism'.

  • @ML4wr3nc3 Communism only works on paper, never on people. Real communism is fantasy and cannot work in the real world.

  • @ML4wr3nc3 "communism" itself in Marxist theory is only a term applicable when every worker in the world has united and overthrown the ruling elite. So, even in Marx's terms, communism never exsited on this planet. But your basic premise is accurate, the slander on communism in this country has been successful to a large extent, people are scared of socialism and have no clue what it is, but think otherwise, which is even more dangerous.

  • i can't get enough of this guy

  • Noam Chomsky should go back to the ovens the left wingers created.

  • @JBBlitz what a troll you are keep on keep on

  • /watch?v=mM1aLJ58EUY

    There are some really interesting interviews with workers, young people and other demonstrators in this video. They explain what they think about the situation they are facing, and outline some of the political conclusions that they've drawn from their experiences.

  • @espada9

    Troll harder!

  • The fema-nazi narrator could really use some makeup, but then again would it really help?

  • "...this miserable creature...."  haha

  • I will forever show that clip of Obama praising Reagan to Obama-worshipping idiots.

  • @AndrewMann552 do you really think he "voluntarily" said those things?

  • @MysticRealmz2112 That's always the excuse. So when he said he has no problem with big CEO bonuses he was also under the systematic gun?

  • @AndrewMann552 Since I made that comment, my views have begun to shift. I wanted to believe he was what he said he was, but then...he's a politician. The views of left and right have become so distorted that they're virtually indistinguishable now.

  • @AndrewMann552 And Obama has been praising Reagan since before he was even elected. Really, though, no president since the 80s, Republican or Democratic, has reversed Reagan's disastrous policies; they've all continued them and exacerbated them.

  • Obama,

    can your Bush&Dick Republican dead brain hear this? Obama, what happened to you. When did your brain leave your body? You're no longer a man of the people, you're a complete Bush&Dick Republican speak fool. What has happened to you?

  • @BeantownJim According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. He is also the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author".

    And you are—?

  • @rgillmor1 thank you for letting Jim know.....

  • @rgillmor1 An a free American! With no need of anyones aproval.

  • @BeantownJim You mean "A free American! ..." right? I think that's what you meant. But hey, it's not your fault you're illiterate. That's the fault of the government taking money away from public schools so they can have them privatized and make a quick buck. However, I do pity you.

  • @BeantownJim What you say is correct except for everything that chomsky said is accurate and he's an anarchist not a communist and....

    Wait, wtf am I doing arguing with a guy called "BeantownJim", 1. what are the odds that he has anything to say that isn't idiotic and 2. seriously dude, "Communist", what 1950s backwater did you crawl out of?

    I think I'll leave this by saying that reality has a leftist bias so the best way to denounce it is to call it "Communist" and give no evidence.

  • @majordbag2 Chomsky could be called a council communist. "some form of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society."

  • @majordbag2 I don't think he's an anarchist. He's not entirely anti government.

  • @jimbobanalbeats Keep in mind when I say he's an anarchist it's because he claims to be one or at least a "libertarian-anarchist". Regardless of what he should or should not be called, he's definitely not in favor of what has traditionally been called communism, i.e. the heavily centralized state run command economy form of communism of the former Soviet Union.

  • @majordbag2 Couldn't have said it better

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