Gore Vidal is asked the question.......
How is it, then, to live full-time in the United States?
"If you care about America it's dreadful," he said. "If you are making money you don't care."
"Benjamin Franklin was shown the new American constitution, and he said, 'I don't like it, but I will vote for it because we need something right now. But this constitution in time will fail, as all such efforts do. And it will fail because of the corruption of the people, in a general sense.' And that is what it has come to now, exactly as Franklin predicted."
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