Lipstick on a Pig? Obama, McCain, Chomsky & Failed States

A portion of the documentary "American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals" in which Noam Chomsky describes why campaigns focus on character instead of issues.

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[arzoyan]

Capitalism is the wage slavery of immense humanity for the abstract process of capital accumulation and concentration .A dictatorship of Market over needs,well being of humanity and our natural enviornment. A system of minority nomadic rampaging for profit as the only consideration and motive, dehumanising and devaluing all and everytthing in its midst. Capitalism is the orgaised legalised robbery of the working class, a suffocating tyrannical rule of a criminal minority across the world

[alien3445]

yeah pippermill dont fucking waste time we've got a government to overthrow

[nissimgaga]

mr .ChomskY for president of Israel but, to bad they wont even let him in for next 10 years...

[EclecticSceptic]

@jscottupton Lol. For your own good, don't say that Noam Chomsky doesn't know about economics. That will make you look like an idiot. He talks about economics all the time! He's a political philosopher so he has to know. And what the hell is common sense?

[alien3445]

yeah pippermill dont fucking waste time we've got a government to overthrow

[poop121]

@semoserjr

he/she should have been

[rolpho]

wat

[jscottupton]

I read about this guy on wikipedia. The article did not inspire confidence that this guy really understands economics. I'm sure he knows a lot about linguistics. But I think he is lacking in common sense.

[semoserjr]

Did you really think that someone voting for McCain would have been that interested in a Noam Chomsky video?  Dummy.

[viscountprawn]

This seems like a bit of a simplistic view because campaigns never take one single tack. You can certainly emphasize ethos over logos and pathos in a political campaign, but all three are to some degree required - even the most character-focused campaigns mention issues at some point.

Also, the description of this video is a bit misleading, because it doesn't tell us anything about why US campaigns focus on character over issues - it just reminds us how we would view other countries that do so.