Chomsky and Zizek clashed on voting in the US elections, but the views of both are critically flawed.
The torturous course and calamitous consequence of the 2016 United States presidential election is bound to sustain a critical course of reflections for quite some time to come – and quite rightly so.
The disproportionately dangerous power of the occupant of the White House and the fact that the peace and sanity of the world at large is very much contingent on a reasonable and sane person to occupy that office requires continued reflections on what is happening in this country and its perilously volatile political culture.
In two consecutive conversations with Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan, two prominent critical thinkers with a global audience have reflected closely on their respective views on the course and consequence of this presidential election.
Source: Why Chomsky and Zizek are wrong on the US elections – Al Jazeera English