Noam Chomsky and My Dad

I remember about twenty years ago, my dad—a radically conservative Faux News robot before there was a Faux News—watched an interview with Noam Chomsky. I was surprised that my father thought that Chomsky had the problems faced by the country totally pegged. It didn’t take long to learn that my father knew nothing of what Chomsky thought in terms of policy prescriptions. My father was and is a populist. But he is a populist he eagerly embraces the lies told him by the very people who oppress him.

In this recent interview, Chomsky talks about this. He might as well be talking about my father: