Loony leftist projection.

Gore Vidal is so washed up and irrelevant it’s kind of a waste of time to further comment on his angry contradictory ramblings. But I’m posting this because to me it’s a typical attitude of the Sixties hard-core leftist to project their shortcomings onto others — in this case, that America will decline into a “military dictatorship” even as Vidal recommends President Obama rely on just that to pass his health care agenda because the American public is too stupid to know what educated Leftists know: that socialist medicine is what’s best for you dumb lemmings.

[Vidal:] Another notable Obama mis-step has been on healthcare reform. “He f***ed it up. I don’t know how because the country wanted it. We’ll never see it happen.” As for his wider vision: “Maybe he doesn’t have one, not to imply he is a fraud. He loves quoting Lincoln and there’s a great Lincoln quote from a letter he wrote to one of his generals in the South after the Civil War. ‘I am President of the United States. I have full overall power and never forget it, because I will exercise it’. That’s what Obama needs — a bit of Lincoln’s chill.”

You got that? “The country wanted it.” Just ignore those latest polls showing by 56% to 41% Americans oppose Obama’s federal option. Those 56% are just the Republicans, I suppose, or what Vidal terms “Hitler Youth, based on hatred — religious hatred, racial hatred.” Continue reading the article. The only one professing hatred is Vidal himself. In this case, Vidal seems to be suggesting that the way to solve healthcare is for Obama to use the same brute force that Abraham Lincoln found necessary to exercise during the American Civil War. Because, you know, Americans who oppose state-run health care is the same thing as 11 states seceding from the Union.

Vidal continues:

Instead, America has “no intellectual class” and is “rotting away at a funereal pace. We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people. His problem is being over-educated. He doesn’t realise how dim-witted and ignorant his audience is. Benjamin Franklin said that the system would fail because of the corruption of the people and that happened under Bush.

Is that what Franklin said? Really? And was this a country founded on “holding things together”? Funny, but I thought it was a country founded on the notion of individual liberty — the right to choose a health care plan on the open market, for example. Oh, never you mind. Don’t attempt to understand the ramblings of the enlightened Sixties radical.

Here’s a little more projection from Vidal, and it sure is a educating paragraph:

Vidal became a supportive correspondent of Timothy McVeigh, who blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 killing 168 people. The huge loss of life, indeed McVeigh’s act of mass murder, goes unmentioned by Vidal. “He was a true patriot, a Constitution man,” Vidal claims.

Yeah, what was it Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers said: ”I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”

Birds of a feather, all.