Gore Vidal on our American political and economic system

"Any individual who is able to raise [enough money] to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent...whatever moneyed entities are paying for him.... Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress." --Gore Vidal, "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire"; 1992.