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21. Gore Vidal on the "Property Party"

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:35 AM

Aug 2012

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/01-6

Published on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 by The Nation
Gore Vidal and the Unfinished American Revolution
by John Nichols

"To maintain its grip on the nation, the Property Party must keep actual issues out of political debate. So far they have succeeded marvelously well. Faced with unemployment, Nixon will oppose abortion. Inflation? Marijuana is a halfway house to something worse," he explained, in a soliloquy that, with the change of a few names and locations, remains fresh 40 years after it was written. "The bombing of North Vietnam? Well, pornographers are using the mailing lists of Cub Scouts. Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning."

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