Foreigners are mystified by the whole business while thoughtful Americans there are several of us are equally mystified that the ruling establishment of the country has proved to be so mindlessly vindictive that it is willing, to be blunt, to overthrow the lawful government of the United States that is, a president elected in 1992 and reelected in 1995 by We the People, that sole source of all political legitimacy, which takes precedence over the Constitution and the common law and God himself.

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Gore Vidal was a 20th-century American writer. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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