BBC News recognized the death of Gore Vidal with a
Web page of
some of his choicest quotes. The last of these was used to introduce the radio
announcement of his death:
There is no human problem which could not be solved if
people would simply do as I advise.
What was missing from the page, however, was the quote most
relevant in the current election year:
We don't
have political parties: we have one political party with two right wings called
the Democratic and the Republican.
I seem to recall that he also pursued the corollary to this
proposition: While the Republican Party has traditionally been “the party of
wealth,” Vidal’s assertion implies that wealth now “owns” both parties; and, on
the basis of the
Citizens United ruling, it would appear that wealth
also owns the judiciary branch of our government, the one that was supposed to
be the least politicized.
