Gore Vidal was a fierce critic of American democracy, famously describing the United States not as a democracy, but as a "militarised republic" and an empire in decline. He argued that a "ruling class" maintained power by keeping citizens ignorant, focusing on perpetual war for profit, and allowing money to corrupt the electoral process, which he termed "the United States of Amnesia
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