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Gore Vidal: 'We'll have a dicatatorship soon in the US'

source: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece

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Gore Vidal said, "America has “no intellectual class” and is “rotting away at a funereal pace. We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people. His problem is being over-educated. He doesn’t realise [sic] how dim-witted and ignorant his audience is. Benjamin Franklin said that the system would fail because of the corruption of the people and that happened under Bush.”

Read the entire interview, including his regret for switching his support from Clinton to Obama during the 2004 election at the link.
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115 comments // Gore Vidal: 'We'll have a dicatatorship soon in the US'

  • Allorno1
  • bdub4u
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
    • WhiteNoise:

      "...the concentration of power and the subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations ... in the same proportion as their ignorance." Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America,

      "A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain" - Anatole France

      'We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog, interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
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    • WhiteNoise:

      As for dictatorship...

      WHO NEEDS IT WITH THAT KIND OF BUDGET ;)

      We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you. – Hunter S. Thompson

      AGAIN...

      READ & CRINGE !

      MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR HYPOCRISY
      http://www.mtwsfh.blogspot.com/

      This is what is called, in the history biz, a revisionist history. American history, at least as far as the general public knows it, is in desperate need of revision, bringing what is taught and what is said about America's past more in line with the truth.

      Making the World Safe For Hypocrisy is a chronology of the largely suppressed history of the United States. It is the history that good upstanding Americans are not supposed to know.

      Almost everything you read here is based on publicly available information and most historians know all about it. And yet they remain strangely silent, allowing the fantasyland, propagandized version of American history and the fatuous pseudo-patriotic nonsense spewed by politicians and the mass media to stand unchallenged.

      ANTI-AMERICAN?

      Whenever anyone dares to point out the painfully obvious fact that the U.S. and its leaders have for two hundred years consistently acted in a fashion diametrically opposed to the values which America claims to represent, that person is instantly accused of being anti-American.

      Am I anti-American? I don't think so. But, if believing in free speech and real democracy is anti-American, then I guess I am. If believing that a government should not lie endlessly is anti-American, then I guess I am. If believing that a government should not spy on its own citizens is anti-American, then I guess I am.

      If believing that a government should not kidnap, torture and murder is anti-American, then I guess I am. If believing that a government shouldn't slaughter millions of innocent people simply to further enrich the same old handful of psychopathic bastards and their offspring is anti-American, then I guess I am.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
  • masterzip
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      masterzip  

    • all smart liberals should start a business to exploit the ignorant masses,..the generation that came before me did just that....

    • 2 years ago
  • coffeemusician
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      coffeemusician  

    • I completely agree. We have a system that nurtures the weak and allows the ignorant and lazy to strive. People need to be more educated than they are, but rather than read a book or newspaper, the present generations rely on the regurgitated, skewed information that flies at them from the media. It's easier to absorb something from the TV than to learn through independant research. Pretty soon there won't be any rational people left in the world, and that's a hell I don't want to live in.

    • 2 years ago
  • DRudeBoy
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      DRudeBoy  
    • coffeemusician:

      Do you think the media was freer in previous generations? We have more access to information than any other generation before, just because there's a loud ignorant minority, it doesn't nullify the progress of the majority.

    • 2 years ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • coffeemusician:

      the information we have access to is skewed, biased and highly filtered...and constantly competing with the kind of dumbing down you can observe just in the selection of videos at the bottom of this page.

    • 2 years ago
  • BigJoeSixPack
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    • coffeemusician:

      Blaming the "media" or more accurately "new media" for the (so called) decline in intelligence/ curiosity has to be the most retarded and irresponsible thing being spouted out by many these days...Many, even, in the media.

      There is something in the blood of the people of this country that is the root of the problem. Media exploits that, (this land was built on exploitation) the Media does not cause it.

      A book written by a man is skew, a newspaper put out by who ever has a slant/ is skewed.
      Its all skewed, its always been skewed, it has also always been the responsibility of the people to do well with the information they were given. TODAY THEY DO NOT.

      A man with more tools should be a more successful man; today he is not. How can that be the fault of anyone but that man?

    • 2 years ago
  • freshfish
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      freshfish  

    • man he tells it like it is... no matter how much it hurts wish we had people like that running this country. Whole country is built on piles of bullshit, no wonder we are losing our balance.

    • 2 years ago
  • sampierre
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • “Don’t ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren’t any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I’m never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.”---Ya gotta like him.

    • 2 years ago
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  

    • Good article. Gore Vidal is as sharp, accurate, and acerbic as ever.
      His assessment of what he sees as Obama's inevitable failure is sobering. As is his statement that "Obama believes the Republican Party is a party when in fact it’s a mindset, like Hitler Youth, based on hatred — religious hatred, racial hatred. When you foreigners hear the word ‘conservative’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not, they’re fascists.”
      I myself still hold out some hope, but we shall soon see.

    • 2 years ago
  • copperdog
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      copperdog  
    • ampersand:

      this statement couldn't be more true.. particularly in American politics we see a great deal of hatred and fear coming out in campaigns.. campaigns that target the opinion of the people (this is worrying)

    • 2 years ago
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