Gore Vidal on the future

[Music] how significantly different would a Clinton White House Obama White House or an Edwards White House how much can they do how much do they want to do differently to broken the first thing you have to do is get back habeas corpus you've got to get back to the Magna Carta you've got to get back our legal system you've got to get back the pillars of the Constitution and they're gone you don't republics don't restore themselves just that there's a group of ex Reagan conservatives that are waging a campaign exactly along these lines saying the constitution must be reclaimed in fact they're making more of it than the leadership Democratic Party is well do they have the same Constitution in mind or either have something else in mind one never knows with marginal groups I think the Reagan people just believed and you make as much money as you can screw everybody else this this gang seems to be they're certainly talking the talk of wanted to defend habeas corpus in the Constitution but more my point is we're hearing very little this from the Democratic Party well people who go there as Dennis Kucinich there are a lot of people if Senator lay senator congressman Conyers a lot of people who understand the Constitution and understand the risks of dictatorship because we're right on the edge of it I tell people Europeans I said you know what do you think the regime and I said well what they've done is interesting symbolic I said I was born 80 years ago in a country called the United States of America and I now live in a homeland this is an expression we haven't heard since Hitler they since they don't know anything about language or politics or thought or anything else they think is this a wonderful way of explaining the United States defending itself against its numerous inscrutable enemies they hate us we don't know why but we didn't blow up their cities they might feel more kindly towards us 2+2 is not possible in the United States of Alzheimer's what do you see in the next 10 15 years bankruptcy for the nation which will put an end to these insane wars we can't afford one I know in Washington I mean the entire Bush gang is longing to reconstitute the army and with another million men I can't find a million men and the American people although they can be easily tricked they're not stupid and they're not enlisting those who've been in more or less running the world for the last 50 60 years or more how do they deal with the situation where they might not run the world anymore well martial law would be the first step that they would take to get back their powers so was it good one it was an easy one they have also some models they think an Abraham Lincoln but he certainly ruled with dictatorial powers but the Constitution allowed him to do that and he was faced with a dissolution of his country so he cared a lot about there's nobody in this administration who knows anything about the United States they don't know the history they certainly do not wish the people well if you ever talk to Republicans privately about their this is elected officials their opinion of the people it's their contempt is so total and if you're on their side you're a soft-hearted liberal or you've been taken in what do you see as the response coming from the people in the next ten well I think bankruptcy depression how will people respond well there could be rioting certainly when we saw what happened in you know the late 20s early 30s and institutions collapse banks collapse and roosevelt swift actions followed by the brains of lured games changed the whole economic structure of the West much less the United States so we were lucky between Keynes and Roosevelt who have had to such extraordinary men who didn't have our interests at heart or at least appeared to

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Length: 4min 41sec (281 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 05 2007