Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore VidalPeople have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
Gore VidalCongress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
Gore VidalTelevision is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore VidalSince there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.
Gore Vidal