Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia2013

Gore Vidal:
[speaking on the 60's] Watching this conflict, one saw that it was a cultural war that has now joined the race war in the United States, and a generation war. That there was such malevolence of these elderly politicians toward the young, toward the idealists, towards anybody who wanted to change anything. And that was when I realized that the country is still less civil than what I thought. Uhh, I would say that the current commitment to political action throughout the United States is the most hopeful thing that I've ever seen in my lifetime. And it was begun partly by the race situation in America and has now come to a head with the Vietnamese War, and the slow recognition that the United States has become an empire of the most predatory kind. This has energized, radicalized many of the young in the United States, and I see those as good roles to play.