Noam Chomsky: The Democratic party now belongs to moderate Republicans
America has traditionally been run by a single business party, divided into two distinct factions. Not anymore VIDEO
Noam Chomsky (Credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
The majority of Democrats have shifted to the right so far that the two-party system is almost unrecognizable, according to Noam Chomsky.
“There used to be a quip that the United States was a one-party state with a business party that had two factions: the Democrats and Republicans—and that used to be pretty accurate, but it’s not anymore. The U.S. is still a two-party state, but there’s only one faction, and it’s not Democrats, it’s moderate Republicans. Today’s Democrats have shifted to the right,” Chomsky told RT America’s Anissa Naouai.
And apparently, so have the Republicans.
According to Chomsky, “[Political scientist] Norman Ornstein simply describes the Republican Party today as a ‘radical insurgency that doesn’t care about fact, doesn’t care about argument, doesn’t want to participate in politics, and is simply off the spectrum.'”
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