Gore Vidal Explains how the pillars of the constitution are GONE & they’re gone forever until we force a revolution.
via ibookmarkit.com
An interview with Gore Vidal by David Frost is featured on iBookmarkIt.com. Gore Vidal's view of the American republic's erosion in the last few years dovetails with his long-held view that America's "golden age" was pretty much exactly 1945-1950; i.e., from the end of WWII until the inauguration of what he terms the "national security state," a system supporting "perpetual war for perpetual peace"--primarily for the benefit of US corporations--in the name of fighting communism. He cites 1950 specifically because by the close of that year we were at war Korea, and our gov't had already instituted loyalty oaths and review committees to measure government employees' "Americanism," and the red scare was well underway--not to mention so pervasive that the Cincinnati Reds temporarily renamed themselves the "Cincinnati Redlegs," for fear they be too closely associated with what, who, had become the "Reds," those unseen legions of the dreaded Commie fifth column in America.
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