U.S. of Amnesia

The first thing you do is bring the troops home. (...) Another reason we have no past is the fault of the educational system. And then if you have media, to put it politely, that is totally corrupt, easily bought, and if you have a president who tells lies or a whole society who tells lies about itself, then you have a basic unreality. (...) You cannot have a war against an abstract noun — which is what terrorism is. (...) Dean knew intuitively the fact that American people are violently isolationist, and virulently against foreign wars and want to be left alone to do their own business — which is business. (...) But with constant repetition, constantly telling lies, Bush and Cheney have convinced the America people somehow they’re all mixed up together. And they hate us because we’re so good! We’re such a good people. That is cretinism.

U.S. of Amnesia
Gore Vidal
LA Weekly

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