Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire (GVidal)

[katty]

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Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire

Posted on Apr 16, 2007

Zuade Kaufman / Truthdig

By Gore Vidal

Whenever The New York Times finally gets the point to what is going on in our native land a celestial choir can be heard in Times Square, shouting hosannas. This happened recently, on April 14th, when they realized that there could be a dark explanation for what W. is doing when he sends a Mr. Bolton, a U.N. hater, to be ambassador to that body or a Mr. Wolfowitz to the World Bank, a man as ignorant of history and finance as the president himself. Maureen Dowd in the Times was allowed to set the pitch for the latest revelations with her “More Con Than Neo” headline. Meanwhile, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of incompetents are now cluttering the Justice Department while known incompetents are in place to wreck from within regulatory systems and even mighty Walter Reed Hospital itself. Click here to listen to Gore Vidal read this essay.

And then such investigations that W. has cut back—particularly at the height of the pet food investigation, a matter of such passionate interest to our countrymen.

Needless to say, the Times, instinctively pro-Bush, as it too is an inept creature of our leviathan master: corporate America. But though the Times now notes a mysterious problem with Bush’s general relations to the outside world, the Times, as usual, cannot grasp what so many of us fans of the American Republic can see so clearly: In the name of Manichaean religious cults he is eager to destroy every last trace of the New Deal (privatize Social Security) by destroying both the state and its global imperium.

[undergroundpanther]

1. like all bully incompetents

they do not give up power and prestige their fake authority titles gave them, the illusion they were SOMEBODY, and return to their rightful place of insignificance easily.When this empire falls it may be very ugly as every citizen bully and incompetent that IDENTIFIES with this national sickness will fight to be Somebody" other than the piece of shit dumb ass bully they are hiding behind authority systems and abusing power through them.Right wing is the party for all incompetent pathetic whiny greedy,narcissists, bullies,con men, psychopaths and authoritarian dip shits.In republican conservative world the lowest scum play and create word twisting "ideologies" full of bullshit,pretending like they are upstanding citizens.When their agenda is nothing more than to dominate and control and hide the fact they cannot do anything right and envy the people who can, so they use their unearned social positions to bully.They hate reality because reality will not lie and make theincompetant bullies worthy of anything but social rejection once that mask and game of hiding the evidence of how vile they really are becomes clear.

[katty]

4. they never give up, I view them as nasty cultists of the #1 order

[Peace Patriot]

2. Well, we don't have Vonnegut any more, to kick the Empire around, but we still have Vidal.

What a treasure!

[katty]

3. Gore V is a national treasure