Gore Vidal has some health problems so use the time with this great American to the best. 

No one alive today can match him for his wit and scope of view.

 My favorite is his phrase "United States of Amnesia." That sums up the foundation upon which American fascism rests. 

In Mein Kampf Adolph Hitler wrote in Chapter Six on Propaganda, "The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out...."

This explains how Republicans are better at propaganda because they have whittled down their talking points on any issue to a few slogans and repeat them over and over.  For example, Democrats are "tax and spend liberals is the favorite slogan repeated again and again. Intelligent people laugh at slogans.  In fact that is how you can tell if you are intelligent--if you take Republican slogans seriously that is a great diagnostic indicator of your lack of intelligence and your citizenship in the United States of Amnesia.