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Griff · 02-02-2002, 12:46 PM

I really enjoy reading Gores take on events. He really seems to lament the death of the Republic, something you don't get much from American leftists. Its really fascinating to me, that he developed that relationship with McVeigh since, to me anyway, Vidal has always been the voice of the old American aristocracy, while McVeigh was the would be martyr for a rebellion to overthrow our present aristocracy. The Vanity Fair article is definitely worth a read.

Vidal is a lot more complex in outlook than most of our writers. He really seems to like FDR but at the same time recognizes his virtual dictatorship. He lays a lot at the feet of Truman,the rise of the military industrial complex, centralization of industry, and agriculture none of which would have proceeded at the pace it did without FDR priming the Federal pump. I wonder if he gives FDR the benefit of the doubt due to his position in society, while Truman gets nailed for being a merchant. In my own family, I had a grandfather and great uncles who, despite working to unionize farmers, despised FDR as a threat to land ownership and small scale farming generally and just maybe hated him for being an aristocrat, since our had people fled the same in kind of oppressor in Ireland.
Anyway random thoughts on a really good writer whose willingness to go out on a limb is rare and admirable. I wonder what he's written since 911?

02-02-2002, 12:46 PM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Vidal I really enjoy reading Gores take on events. He really seems to lament the death of the Republic, something you don't get much from American leftists. Its really fascinating to me, that he developed that relationship with McVeigh since, to me anyway, Vidal has always been the voice of the old American aristocracy, while McVeigh was the would be martyr for a rebellion to overthrow our present aristocracy. The Vanity Fair article is definitely worth a read. Vidal is a lot more complex in outlook than most of our writers. He really seems to like FDR but at the same time recognizes his virtual dictatorship. He lays a lot at the feet of Truman,the rise of the military industrial complex, centralization of industry, and agriculture none of which would have proceeded at the pace it did without FDR priming the Federal pump. I wonder if he gives FDR the benefit of the doubt due to his position in society, while Truman gets nailed for being a merchant. In my own family, I had a grandfather and great uncles who, despite working to unionize farmers, despised FDR as a threat to land ownership and small scale farming generally and just maybe hated him for being an aristocrat, since our had people fled the same in kind of oppressor in Ireland. Anyway random thoughts on a really good writer whose willingness to go out on a limb is rare and admirable. I wonder what he's written since 911?