Entrevista a Gore Vidal. El estado de la Gran República.

[Casio]

Aqui pego una entrevista a Gore Vidal de una revista americana sobre la situación de EEUU.

Siento hacerlo en inglés. 
Sí­rvame esto para averigí¼ar como se tolera por aquí­ esto de plantificar tochos en inglés. Si molesta prometo reprimirme severamente a partir de ahora.

He tirado del traductor del google y los resultados para la primera pregunta han sido los siguientes:

" 
CityBeat: 
¿Usted piensa que es posible la administración del arbusto entró Iraq realmente que cree que separaba democracia a el Oriente Medio? 
Sangre derramada Vidal: 
Por supuesto no. 
¿Por qué deben hacer algo similar? 
Entran de avaricia. 
Se hay altruism muy pequeño en toda nuestra historia. 
Entramos las cosas para el beneficio, y ahora que hemos dejado de ser cualquier forma de democracia, la gente no nos consultamos sobre lo que quisieran sus reglas que él hiciera. 
No se ha declarado"

Por lo que plantifico el texto en anglo:


CityBeat: Do you think that it’s possible the Bush Administration went into Iraq really believing that it was spreading democracy to the Middle East?
Gore Vidal: Of course not. Why should they do anything like that? They go in out of greed. There’s been very little altruism in all of our history. We go into things for profit, and now that we’ve ceased to be any form of democracy, the people are not consulted about what their rulers want them to do. No war has been declared by that part of the legislative branch which is most democratic, that is most responsive to the people.

So, it was just about oil and war profiteering?
Yes. Meanwhile we do not have a media that enlightens anybody about anything, and our public school systems for the average person is pretty bad. We are quite uninformed about things. Therefore we are not in any position to make up our minds if they’re making good policy or a bad policy. First of all, no one will ask us what we think. And then if they say, “Oh, go to the polls,” we go to the polls and the election is stolen as in Florida 2000, 2004 in Ohio.

Do you think that the media is failing in this capacity?
Get the tense right: It has failed.

Has this president made this worse, by being so antagonistic to the media?
Oh, who cares? He doesn’t run the country, a handful of corporations run it. No, this is not conspiracy theory, this is conspiracy analysis. The country is very tightly led with corporate goals which push out anything of a national nature. We’re out of it. It’s like being in a bubble. I’ve spent a great deal of my life living across the water, and someone said, “How can you follow American politics when you’ve had your house in Italy for all those years?” And I said, “Well, that’s the only way I can find out what’s going on in America, because the foreign press, at least in western Europe, is quite good.”

Corporate influence in politics seems more raw and apparent now than ever before.
Of course it is. And it was all due to the “good luck” â€" those two words I have just used ironically â€" of 9/11. “I’m a wartime president! I’m a wartime president!” Well, he ***** well isn’t. He’s an accidental president. He happens to be put in by the oil and gas people to cut their taxes and then go in for preemptive wars against countries that are weak and that have done us no harm, like Afghanistan and Iraq. This was a godsend for those who would like to get rid of Congress and the courts and the Constitution. And they’re doing very well at it â€" very, very well. “Mission accomplished,” I believe, is what he said on the aircraft carrier.

Do you think that those effects are lasting, or can they be reversed?
Well, is the glass half full or half empty? I think the damage done to our system by the last 20 years â€" of which he’s just the most ludicrous example â€" is probably irreparable. We may not have time enough to restore the republic. We just lost it. I mean, when the attorney general of the United States goes before Congress and just says the president can pick and choose what he wants to do, and that his wartime powers are inherent â€" well, if that dumb-dumb Gonzales has ever read the Constitution, he knows that there are no inherent presidential rights, they are enumerated in the Constitution;
they’re named. And there’s a great many things he cannot do. For one, he can’t go eavesdropping without getting a court order â€" that’s the law.

Has our foreign policy stance also been permanently damaged?

I would say nothing is ultimately irreparable, but the Constitution, as we have enjoyed it over the years and as it has sustained us, has been given some death blows. Now everyone is in the habit of seeing people shoot each other, police shoot children, children kill each other, I mean, this is a mess. And how do you start to repair it? That’s a real problem for a real political party. Unfortunately, we don’t have them at the moment.

Do you have a prescription for achieving that?
It’s a tall order, but we have to undertake it, like it or not. A presidential election costs some money, but there’re a lot of rich people on the left, or on the side of the Constitution, to hold a true election. Skip the states and just set up balloting machinery around the country. I’d go back to the old-fashioned written ballots, which leave a paper trail, and just go all-out to try and do an honest one. You might have very, very different names at the end of the day. This would cause hysteria and, god knows, bloodshed and whatever by those who don’t really want an honest election, but at least we might know what was out there.

[Former U.N. weapons inspector] Scott Ritter’s information seems like vitally important stuff. Is the country too polarized to listen?
They’re not used to hearing anything. The only art form that the United States ever developed is the TV commercial. That’s our Sistine Chapel. That’s our masterpiece. That’s a very rare art form, but it’s not very informative. Now you’ve got to get away from advertising. Just through sheer repetition, which is the secret of advertising, these two fools in office have convinced the American people, these 60, 70 percent, that [Saddam Hussein] was responsible for 9/11. He didn’t have anything to do with 9/11. "



 
 Aunque algunas cosas que dice son muy 
sabidas he encontrado un paralelismo muy fuerte entre la situación de Bush y la de César y 
 su consulado vitalicio. Para ambos, la amenaza externa justifica los poderes extraordinarios del ejecutivo.


Tambien su referencia a la publicidad de TV 
como la gran aportación de América a la cultura universal . La llave maestra: repita algo mil veces, aunque sea mentira, se terminará creyendo. Ya sea la conspiración mundial judia, 
 las baratura del Corte Inglés o la conspiración oculta tras el 11-M.

La conclusión de "buenas noches, y buena suerte" 
es que el dia que los patrocinadores decidieron que en sus espacios ni querian nada polémico, 
la esperanza de una televisión
Útil para el ciudadano, se habia acabado.

Otras cuestión que plantea, el estado de la democracia en USA es casi malo, malo. 
 
 
 
 
 

[Casio]

Entendido. Corto y Cierro.

[zruspa]

Entendido. Corto y Cierro.

No, hombre.

Pasa que, como tú dices, es todo muy sabido. A Gore Vidal se le dan mejor las cosas más generales, para estos detallitos hay fieras como Greg Palast, aunque está bien que las repitan los grandes guruses. Sobre los paralelismos que opine Olafdangarkala.

[Don Pésimo]

Gore Vidal, en Creación, toma partido por los persas. En Juliano el Apóstata, por los paganos. En este artí­culo, por el Eje del Mal. Además escribe raro y antiespañol, no sé si en catalufo o basko o qué coño.
Federico, machácalo.

Dixi.

[Casio]

No pienso besar a una rana.