@@ukrandr he was highly intuitive. Based on all his study of history, he could see the patterns playing out again. He knew how corrupt the oligarchs are and that they own our government
"The first principle of republicanism is that the lex majoris partis is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights; to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority of a single vote as sacred as if unanimous is the first of all lessons in importance, yet the last which is thoroughly learnt. This law once disregarded, no other remains but that of force, which ends necessarily in military despotism." --Thomas Jefferson
@HypermarketCommodity I give him a pass. Its true of everyone when they get old and tired, and Vidal spent years saying the same basic things. Brilliant, but he must have gotten sick of hearing himself.
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Nailed it. On the money. Vidal saw this coming
Gore was a modern day Cassandra.
@@ukrandr he was highly intuitive. Based on all his study of history, he could see the patterns playing out again. He knew how corrupt the oligarchs are and that they own our government
Prophecy. Nobody was or is listening.
Gore Vidal ❤❤❤
Prescient
He didn't even see the rise of Trump. Wish he were still alive
"The first principle of republicanism is that the lex majoris partis is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights; to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority of a single vote as sacred as if unanimous is the first of all lessons in importance, yet the last which is thoroughly learnt. This law once disregarded, no other remains but that of force, which ends necessarily in military despotism." --Thomas Jefferson
I wish Gore had lived until the Trump Era. What would he say?
probably something about being a finook
Trump actually was the only president since gore said this that didn't start a new war
A young gore would have been great... the close to the end gore vidal sadly not so much.
@HypermarketCommodity I give him a pass. Its true of everyone when they get old and tired, and Vidal spent years saying the same basic things. Brilliant, but he must have gotten sick of hearing himself.
@@jefolson6989 I do so as well, im just saying in the end he was not quite the "I would call for revolution, But im not going to."
What would GORE have thought of the "Woke" ?
I think Gore was pretty woke. As woke as its possible to be with ice water in his veins.
He would have thought a bunch of Right wingers screaming "Woke" at everything was a cheap knock off of McCarthyism.
Damn haha
Gore Fetal Position
That wonderful fake, Mr Gore Vidal.