NOAM TITELMAN—Performance politics dominated the debate. The Constitutional Convention started to lose support, above all, among right-wing voters suspicious of what they viewed as a collection of activists for progressive causes. While some activists considered it a betrayal to stop mobilizing, even within corridors of power, some voters, particularly those championing order, saw nonstop mobilization as a veritable nightmare.
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CALEB MAUPIN—The US, given its ignorant, trusting and confused culture, and its aversion to serious thinking, is a dreamland for charlatans of all stripes. Most people who watch this video agree with Caleb, which testifies that there are sane and rational minds in the US, but they are starving for truth.
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Despite its many obvious astonishing accomplishments, Western presstitutes can rarely find anything nice to say about China. The unspoken mission is to maliciously disinform about Beijing 24/7.
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy is an Associate Teaching Professor of American Studies at the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University in Ohio. She is a scholar of American culture with an interest in the relationship between political ideologies and popular culture. In her research, she has found that America’s antipathy toward socialism may not be an accident. The Ad Council and American corporate interests produced materials that promoted the virtues of capitalism and free enterprise in America while simultaneously demonizing the alternative — socialism — which was often conflated with communism.
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Chomsky’s de facto anti-communist posture, despite or probably because of his ultra-left pronouncements, has certainly been noted by the establishment; they have apparently cynically tolerated him for many years and used him as a reliable controlled-opposition asset. Chomsky is well known, for example, to offer scathing critiques of the reigning duopoly, only to suggest every four years to put that aside and vote for “the lesser evil”. Equally damaging to the real left—whatever its flaws—has been Chomsky’s insistence on calling Lenin, Fidel, Che Guevara, Mao, and Ho Chi Minh, among others, nothing but “power-hungry thugs”. Prominent thinkers on the real left have noted Chomsky’s slanderous attacks and wondered about his motivations.
