1) Chomsky is not an anarchist and has always had terrible social democrat takes. 2) Chomsky is a cute grandpa we tolerate. 3) Chomsky is rich and wildly disconnected from struggle, not to mention radical theory. 4) You would be obliged to vote Biden — *if* your vote mattered.
It's better to be hot or cold than lukewarm, I dunno.
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The kernel of substance here is that settling for a lesser evil in a binary choice over an n-iterated game creates strong incentive for a race to the bottom. This doesn't however mean the optimum strategy is context-free recalcitrance.
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The mystic's option is Vermin Supreme. You might get consequentialists to agree with you, but the world consists of a mostly polarized range of evil pragmatists and deliberately impotent virtue ethicists who spit on their lives and this earth with gnostic severity
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