Gore Vidal - American Presidency

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[zebonaut]

1. Where'd you find this gem?

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2. On the internets

It's chock full of random stuff

[FighttheFuture]

3. GV: I have been saying for the last thousand years that the United States has only one party—

the property party. It’s the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_intv0806


He elaborated a bit more back in '75:

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party . . . and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt – until recently . . . and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties