I disagree with lots of Gore Vidal's views, but even when he's speaking on issues where I vehemently disagree with him, he's thoughtful, concise and can defend his stance brilliantly. There's also so much he's dead right on, and with the sole exception of his criticism of the Military-Industral Complex (which a handful of people very occasionally address) nobody discusses any of it anymore. I grew up in America and now live in Australia - a country whose government runs under the very Parliamentary system Gore is promoting here - and for its flaws it operates *so* much more effectively than America's presidential system with a paralysed, utterly ineffective Congress. The US needs a new constitution worse than Rush Limbaugh needed a triple bypass and a trip to rehab. Stop clinging to an obsolete, half-assed document - it's not sacred.

I agree with much of Vidal's views but am in even more agreement with the accuracy of your comment. The US Constitution was supposed to be a 'living' document by the reckoning of many but now is cited by the very voices who seek to conveniently ignore it while promoting anti-democratic tyranny.

There were plenty of anti-Jewish people who got it right. Anti-Jewish people have the most accurate insights and predictions, because they recognize who the real rulers are. Everyone else, including Vidal, has their heads buried in the sand.

spot on

Can you imagine his nightmare if he was alive to witness America today.

@@nejuwHe’s spinning in his grave right now, observng what’s going on with Trump. 😂

in his day, most Americans had no clue who Gore Vidal was; and he was a noted leftist of his day. He might even have been considered a Socialist. "Burr" his novel about Aaron Burr ( Alexander Hamilton's nemesis) has been a favorite historical fiction of mine. Vidal was an intellectual giant with a contrarian nature.

@@rebeccaLV I actually met him back in the mid 80's, in key West. I didn't know who he was, but the way he spoke was unmistakable, and it was only later I realized. He said I said something interesting, or funny, I can't remember, but he jotted it down in a little note book he carried.

Wow that was lucky and especially because his comment was affirming, which, I suspect even in casual conversation for him, would have been counter to type. So congratulations that you received any kind of compliment from him! @@worldadventureman

@@rebeccaLV Well that's not to say he didn't write something along the lines of "met a fool of a young man today, said the most stupid thing and had no clue who I was" 🤣🤣

Vidal once wrote, As we get older, we don't change; we simply get better at selling ourselves (to others).

America even elected a president who never read a book.

Education system ruined by the left-leaning liberal Democrats.

Frightening, is it not?

I find myself asking that question a lot these days...Vidal would be appalled at the loss of our civil liberties for sure.

Vidal, as well as Chomsky, predicted the dumbing down of the electorate that will lead to the charismatic candidate that will bring about an existencial crisis to democracy in the USA,.. we got it in 2016..

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Suskind asking a loaded question. He knows damn well the bankers have done this before in Russia France GERMANY, Ukraine, Poland, Balkan states etc etc. they have a 2000 year history of bank collapsing and money laundering 🥸

I give you a thumbs down. No-one should ever have had to be subjected to THAT. However I still agree. Someone would lose, believing he had won. Twice over, maybe.

Vidal would have liked Trump. He didn't have to steal like the Democrats.

Or 2.0x. I can’t sit through an hour of anything on the tube

I noticed that, too.

Bush Sr. was CIA before he was head of CIA. Wasn't he in Dallas when JFK was slaughtered ?

It's because of Teddy that the illegals are overrunning the country.

Reagan proved Gore right about Reagan.