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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders can win back Donald Trump supporters [View all]
Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders can win back Donald Trump supportersRachael Revesz
The Independent
Professor Noam Chomsky said that Donald Trump supporters could be enticed to vote Democrat again if the Bernie Sanders movement offered a real program for "hope and change".
On the same evening that vice president Joe Biden said he might run for president in 2020, Mr Chomsky told the crowds at Democracy Now!’s 20th anniversary event that reigniting a "militant labour movement" could swing the next election.
But the professor said that if young people and activists revived a strong labour movement, which could overcome racial conflict like it did in the 1930s, then the workers’ favour could be won back.
"Suppose people like you, the Sanders movement, offered an authentic, constructive program for real hope and change, it would win these people back," he said.
On the same evening that vice president Joe Biden said he might run for president in 2020, Mr Chomsky told the crowds at Democracy Now!’s 20th anniversary event that reigniting a "militant labour movement" could swing the next election.
But the professor said that if young people and activists revived a strong labour movement, which could overcome racial conflict like it did in the 1930s, then the workers’ favour could be won back.
"Suppose people like you, the Sanders movement, offered an authentic, constructive program for real hope and change, it would win these people back," he said.
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Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders can win back Donald Trump supporters [View all]
portlander23
Dec 2016
OP
What the fuck is he talking about 'millitant labor movement' overcame racial conflict in the 30's?
bravenak
Dec 2016
#4
mixed bag, the AFL was deeply racist, the CIO and especially the Wobblies did help
Grey Lemercier
Dec 2016
#5
It just pisses me off when they pretend all was wonderful and good within labor unions
bravenak
Dec 2016
#6
whilst I tend to agree with you on this about many white scholars, Chomsky is actually
Grey Lemercier
Dec 2016
#7
That is exactly why I do not understand his failure to remember the war it took to even get
bravenak
Dec 2016
#11
on this we agree totally(I was a Biden supporter until he decided not to run, then was 1000% Hillary
Grey Lemercier
Dec 2016
#13
But the thing is, this was a launch point where black activists could make change by
JCanete
Dec 2016
#15
for what its worth, when I was considering not voting for Clinton, that was my rationale. I'v got to
JCanete
Dec 2016
#27
I agree that it was way better than before but we basically had to start our own unions to get
bravenak
Dec 2016
#21
He can work to have them vote for him in the next primary. The results will be the same.
NCTraveler
Dec 2016
#8