I think you might be arguing with someone else with some context about which I'm not aware? Direct cut and paste from the Chomsky quote: "...you don’t care wh

I think you might be arguing with someone else with some context about which I'm not aware? Direct cut and paste from the Chomsky quote: "...you don’t care whether other people’s kids can go to school, or can afford food to eat, or things like that. In the United States, that’s called “libertarian” " Don't be taken in by the reverse ordering in the phrasing. He's just equated libertarians with total uncaring, self-centred selfishness as being their only possible motivation. In this world view libertarians are foul human beings. Rant: F() that right off. Put that quote with similar accusations that all socialists are unpatriotic traitors, posing to get laid or whatever other silly smear - there's plenty of such smears around. All such comments, including this one from Chomsky are puerile nonsense and deserve to be treated with contempt. Reasonable people who are kind, gentle, empathetic and smart can differ on the best way forward in policy informed by differing ideology in a way that is reasonable and assumes the good faith of their opponent until shown otherwise (at which point a reasonable exchange of ideas is not possible). I'm not a libertarian and I bristle from that Chomsky piece of nonsense. (Which it should go without saying, is not a comment on other points he might make about other things in other contexts, better phrased. That quote is complete rubbish in my opinion and I'm saying so. It should also go without saying I'm not claiming all libertarians are people of wondrous perfection or anything like it.) Anyone who disagrees with me is a lesser human. That's an idea worth opposing across the entirety of the political spectrum including the centre, for mine. It's the worst kind of arrogance at best. Without saying anything at all about the rest of his life and works I believe Chomsky is guilty of it here where I'm calling it. So yeah, it's about this Chomsky quote and not much else. I hate it. You obviously don't have to agree but I hope you understand my reaction.