The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us."
Noam ChomskyThe US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.
Noam ChomskyPoor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.
Noam ChomskyThe American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.
Noam Chomsky