When Julian Assange was arrested in 2019 he was carrying a book titled "The History of the National Security State" in it is a 48 page interview from 2004 with Gore Vidal, who is considered one of the great class traitors of American history. The book paints a inside view of American politics, I've included some of text is below and PDF, also the author of the book also has a YouTube channel "The Analysis" that has been demonetized and a website theanalysis.news

https://frenchvoynich.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/gore-vidal-history-of-the-national-security-state.pdf

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“I’m a battleship,” he said. “I’m an operator. I’m a destroyer, I’m meant for war.” He stopped for a long pause. “But I don’t know if I can do it anymore.”
For most of his life, Vidal waged a struggle against what he calls the “United States of Amnesia.” Throughout a prolific career of celebrated novels, film scripts, and essays, he explored America’s past, unraveled its national psyche, and railed against its misdeeds.
Most of all, it’s been a fight against the hypocrisy of those who talk democracy but are more interested in the defense of property.
He comes from a ruling family (he counts Al Gore and Jackie Kennedy as kin). His father, Eugene L. Vidal, served as the first director of the Bureau of Air Commerce in the Roosevelt administration (and appeared on the cover of Time in 1933).
Gore knew presidents and princesses, celebrated writers and billionaires. Through his work he
accumulated a significant amount of wealth and he lived very well. Yet his criticism of American society was no less compromising than that of a Chomsky or a Zinn.
He was a genuine class traitor. Vidal could have lived an easier and more celebrated life if he just kept his mouth shut. Instead, his attacks on the American empire grew fiercer through the end of his life.
“The next national trauma will be a sharpening of class struggle. [John] Edwards got on the national ticket by noticing something that’s perfectly obvious, that there are two Americas. There are those that have and those that have not. That used to be considered communist propaganda. But it is the condition in most countries most of the time, and in the United States more than ever.”
We headed out to the main square of Ravello, and Gore’s new knee required him to use a wheelchair for part of the trip. Settling in at his favorite bar, we watched beautiful sultry women and men circling each other in front of the cathedral of San Pantaleo. The scene reminded me of a “Vidalism”: “A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
Streams of well-wishers, a few with raised fists in the classic anti-fascist salute, paid their respects. Gore was a hero to the European left.
We settled into more scotch. “It’s a great scandal of the CEOs, who are simply bandits. They go into a company that had a rich base, grab everything they can for themselves, stock options, huge salaries, fire as many people as possible. If we ever have an oldfashioned revolution in the United States, it will be made by well-educated blue- collar workers who have lost their jobs.”
Someone at our table pointed out that there didn’t seem to be a sign of this—much of the working-class votes for Bush.
“Because the bandits own the media,” said Gore. “And the media tells them that America is the greatest country in the world. Well, it sure as hell isn’t, at least not for the people who live in it. But the media are there cheerleading,
‘These are the greatest guys on earth.’ The infantilizing of the republic is one of the triumphs of American television.”
Gore is a man who knew media from the inside. From Hollywood, where he wrote hits like Ben-Hur, to a series of best-selling novels, to countless television appearances, he was one of America’s great celebrity intellectuals for half a century. His transition from media darling to “extremist” outsider mirrored the process of his own radicalization.

While he was much sought after around the world, there was very little room for Gore Vidal in print or on television in his own country.