[SteveMcKing]

If there is one thing that incenses Vidal about his fellow Americans it is ignorance.

Ie. true disagreement on any topic. He cannot accept that core values might differ between any two people, and "wrong conclusions" must only be due to others supposed ignorance.

[PerConPat]

He cannot accept that core values might differ between any two people, and "wrong conclusions" must only be due to others supposed ignorance.

Vidal has been, I like that phrase when discussing him, the poster boy for Lenny Bruce's deadly accurate description of the American liberal as someone who can understand anything except someone who can't understand them. It is always amusing to hear a Lefty - Vidal, Chomsky etc.- attack those who have struggled to keep their Utopian fantasies at bay thus preserving a system that tolerates malignant tumors of the Gore, Vidal or Albert , variety. Don't you just love irony?