Renowned US
academic Noam Chomsky says Bernie Sanders has the best policies of
the Democratic presidential contenders, but does not have a real
chance to win in a political system where elections are "mainly
bought".
In the
second part of an interview with Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera's UpFront
current affairs show, the MIT emeritus professor said he considered
Sanders to be "basically a new dealer".
"I
agree with him in a lot of things, not in other things," Chomsky
said.
"I
frankly think that in our system of mainly bought elections, he
doesn't have much of a chance.”
"But if
he were elected I think he would - of the current candidates - I
think he'd be the one who would have, from my point of view, the best
policies."
An average
of major nationwide political polls, tabulated by RealClear Politics,
sees former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enjoying a significant
lead, 51.2 percent to 38 percent.
But Sanders
has recently enjoyed a major bump in New Hampshire, with a CNN/WMUR
poll pointing to a huge lead over Clinton.
Still, the
majority of analysts still believe Clinton to be the likely
presidential nominee to emerge from the Democratic primaries.
If that was
to happen, Chomsky told UpFront that he would absolutely vote for
Clinton over any Republican, if he lived in a swing state.
"Oh
absolutely... My vote would be against the Republican candidate,"
said Chomsky, who lives in Massachusetts, a safe state for the
Democrats.
Chomsky said
there were clear differences between the two parties.
"There
are enormous differences," he said. "Every Republican
candidate is either a climate change denier or a sceptic who says we
can't do it.
"What
they are saying is, 'Let's destroy the world.' Is that worth voting
against? Yeah."
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