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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChomsky on the GOP: Has Any Organization Ever Been So Committed to Destruction of Life on Earth?
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about this comment that you made that the Republican Party, you said, is the most dangerous organization in world history. Can you explain?
NOAM CHOMSKY: I also said that its an extremely outrageous statement. But the question is whether its true. I mean, has there ever been an organization in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on Earth? Not that Im aware of. Is the Republican organizationI hesitate to call it a partycommitted to that? Overwhelmingly. There isnt even any question about it.
Take a look at the last primary campaignplenty of publicity, very little comment on the most significant fact. Every single candidate either denied that what is happening is happeningnamely, serious move towards environmental catastropheor there were a couple of moderates, so-calledJeb Bush, who said, "Maybe its happening. We really dont know. But it doesnt matter, because fracking is working fine, so we can get more fossil fuels." Then there was the guy who was called the adult in the room, John Kasich, the one person who said, "Yes, its true. Global warmings going on. But it doesnt matter." Hes the governor of Ohio. "In Ohio, were going to go on using coal for energy, and were not going to apologize for it." So thats 100 percent commitment to racing towards disaster.
Then take a look at whats happened since. TheNovember 8th was the election. There was, as most of you know, Im sure, a very important conference underway in Morocco, Marrakesh, Morocco. Almost roughly 200 countries at the United Nations-sponsored conference, which wasthe goal of which was to put some specific commitments into the verbal agreements that were reached at Paris in December 2015, the preceding international conference on global warming. The Paris conference did intend to reach a verifiable treaty, but they couldnt, because of the most dangerous organization in human history. The Republican Congress would not accept any commitments, so therefore the world was left with verbal promises, but no commitments. Well, last November 8th, they were going to try to carry that forward. On November 8th, in fact, there was a report by the World Meteorological Organization, a very dire analysis of the state of the environment and the likely prospects, also pointed out that were coming perilously close to the tipping point, wherewhich was the goal of thethe goal of the Paris negotiations was to keep things below thatcoming very close to it, and other ominous predictions. At that point, the conference pretty much stopped, because the news came in about the election.
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2naSalit
(86,622 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)even comes close. And even he decided to keep some folks and animals around.
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)there is also the free poisoning us by continuing to use our air and oceans as sewers.
the impoverishment of us, allowing the rise of nationalist warmongers and all of the death that will entail
the promise to get rid of healthcare, to keep it extremely expensive, so that we are dying of preventable disease
The push of anti-abortion, which keeps women in poverty and threatens us with overpopulation.
I could go on.
In so many ways, the GOP is a death funnel, spewing disaster and pain over us all.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)I have long thought that the Rs owned the Christo-Fascists, but maybe it's the other way around? And destruction of the planet will get them sucked into heaven?
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)you are probably right about it though. Plus the cult of money.
JDC
(10,127 posts)To use as he sees fit. It's their divine given right. They do not understand that we are simply the result and part of an eco system. It is all based on the big book of myths that gets prayed to each and every Sunday. When shit hits the fan, they again will say God's will and not think twice about how they got us here/there. The next wall they plan on building won't be a border wall. It will be Sea WALLS. Get in on the concrete and rebar bottom floor now....
niyad
(113,306 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)....metaphysical about it, they embody all the qualities of the anti-Christ and true to that principle, they smile and invoke God and the "God-given natural order" at every opportunity.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)if they wouldn't have attracted similar global bad actors.
The easy answer is no, but then, past organizations haven't had the communications and travel logistics of the GOP.