Watching The Snowball

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The Hollywood cocktail party crowd is so certain the fix is in, they're planning to send their chauffeurs to the rallies.

Originally Posted by Lyn Davis Lear in HuffPost

When I asked Gore Vidal at dinner why the White House seemed so serene and at ease about the vote, he replied that, this time around, the Bush-Cheney henchmen could simply call on martial law. He glumly noted that we are so far down the road toward totalitarianism that, even if Democrats do win back the Congress, it would take at least two generations before the last six years of damage to the nation could be reversed. Gore frankly despaired that any amount of time could ever return the country to where and what it previously was. This prediction left me reaching for some Fernet Branca.

...the White House's freakish calm about the elections makes me as nervous as the hell we seem to be headed for. Therefore we should all be on alert. If for whatever reason we don't win back Congress in November the only real answer will be to take to the streets.

Gore Vidal will be armed and dangerous with a broken Ketel One bottle in one hand and a plastic sword of speared olives in the other. Avoid Beverly Hills if the Republicans win.