Video: Noam Chomsky on Clinton vs Sanders

Noam Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the US presidential election and the rise of Islamophobia.

Professor Chomsky says Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has the “best policies”, but little chance of winning in a “mainly bought” election.

When asked if he would vote for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton if he lived in a swing state, Chomsky says: “Oh absolutely… my vote would be against the Republican candidate.”

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Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as “the father of modern linguistics,” Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books, primarily on politics and linguistics.