Absolutely correct!

So he was not from the elite he was an enlisted man who rose due to his superior leadership qualities.

Yes, but, he was a true 'Mustang' [in military jargon]

Ok I get it. When the enemy was to the right and the left in front and behind he says "Great. Now we can shoot at those bastards from every direction.”
Major General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

A famous Marine that I wanted to emulate when I was in.

That's OK I already forgot it. No brain space for the unworthy Noam's proper name. I have a couple of friends named Norm and they are normal. ChestyPuller is interesting though, can't figure it out

To be honest...i looked it up

I trust you know what his proper name is , no need to look it up.

I could care less if his name was Steve or Vlad..his want to destroy the republic leaves him and me at odds...Oh and by the way his proper name is Avram, look it up.

His name is Noam not Norm

OOH RAH! to you as well.

Oorah!

I wouldn't even try to debate on that, it's a fool's ploy. I myself do not see any real differences and knew that this [one party], would come about as fact when I studied the 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

So a baby is dead until it is born? Please explain your ignorant statement; I call it ignorant because dead cells do not grow! So go on 'prof611', I am going to love this debate! By the way do you know what is the English word for the Latin "Fetus"; it is Baby

I could not agree more with your statement on Abortion, I would be writing novels if I were to include everything each time I respond. With this said I am glad you added it in.

LOL, hatred can be for anything you would like to believe it too be...Yet, it is still hatred!

The Republican party is based on a mixture of statism and unprincipled Pragmatism. It cravenly concedes to the Democrats as 'me too but slower'. This has no intellectual base. Recognizing that does not mean "bought into Liberal media lies". An intellectual base for political policy requires far more than being able do math at a checkout register.

Couldn't agree with you more. They belong to the establishment, the elites, the ruling class...call it what you will. Their own power is more important than what's good for the country. Then you have the ones like John McCain who are out for revenge. Guess that you can't beat City Hall.

Your statement that, "The Republican Party has no intellectual base." Tells me that you have bought into the Liberal media lies. The lie of portraying anyone (meaning Republicans) who disagree with them as nothing more than beer swilling, racist, inbreed rednecks, which is patently false. Oh you can find that guy at any gathering (and they always do and put him on the screen) just as you can find the screaming, uptight, self-righteous, lesbian at any of their gatherings. Anytime you accept the proposed stereotype about a group you are heading in the wrong direction.

Republicans run the gambit on actions and education, just as other groups. In fact from my observation it seems that the least educated political party is the Democrats as the vast majority of their base are the minorities. With the Republicans most at least have a high school education and a little college and while neither high school nor college provide the education that they should. It is still far better than the average Democrat who is unable to do the math to figure out if they are being overcharged at the register.

I agree with you 100%. Trump just seems to want to keep feeding the fire, and Ryan and company are no help either....

They want to trash the country, expected to continue uninterrupted, and are outraged that they lost. They know Trump's many weaknesses and how to exploit them. We are in for increasingly hard times.

That may very well be true. I see 2 types of people in politics, those who objectively analyze an issue and may or may not use it for their own advantage (Obama comes to mind) or the emotional, knee jerk type who use grandstanding and outrageous statements (Trump, Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangle come to mind) to generate the emotional responses they feel give them leverage. Trump is clearly an emotional politician, and he does not seem to have any knack for handling people. I see his election as a result of bad vs really bad, and really bad is coming for him in force now for revenge. Never mind if it trashes the country.

The Republican Party has no intellectual base. A small minority of conservative activists, mostly religious conservatives, keep hoping that Republicans will support some vague notion of freedom along with their religion. Trump disingenuously and temporarily appealed to them in the campaign when he dusted off his old Bile and waved it in the air with "I love Evangelicals". Whatever their "convictions", they are no intellectual base either, of anything.

I would agree that Republican politicians have no convictions,; however, I would argue that the Republican base has very definite convictions.

I would also agree better education improves anyone's chances of making good choices.

Chomsky knows enough to know what is important for his agenda and is not fixated on religion. Most Republicans aren't either. It's mostly an intellectual dead issue outside the fanatics. Communists like Chomsky don't hate us for what we are against, but what we are for and are in their way.