Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders can win back Donald Trump supporters

[JCanete]

24. As to automation, ABSOLUTELY TRUE. And I was a little frustrated

that Sanders didn't address the realities of the future we were moving towards(though neither did anybody else), and that's either because as far as that goes he's a little too antiquated, or because it wasn't something people were gong to understand. I accepted it because at least what he was proposing we fight for, unions, protectionism, jobs created by infrastructure spending, etc. would stall an inevitable decline, and maybe move us politically on a path to start looking at even more necessary solutions, like Basic Income Guarantee.

Unions, like any body politic are necessary evils, and operate as counter-weights to even bigger forces. They should be policed better by their members. They should have mechanisms for pushing out those that make the institution look bad,but that is rife with complications too, that could fall along discriminatory lines.

I didn't mean personally that this fight should only be taken up by trade unions though, or just workers. Ultimately all of us in the bottom 99% should be teaming up to fight against oligarchy and corporatocracy, towards more than just a safety net, but a better baseline of human rights that extends to food and shelter and life for everybody.

I know its cynical, but giving people a common enemy that puts them on the same side might be the best way to go, and it's only untrue in the respect that rich people are just people, not bad people, and we wouldn't want to have our own Bastille Day. Still, just waiting for white's to finally lose a choke-hold on the mechanisms of power isn't waiting for change, its only waiting for a changing of the guard.