He was a great Cornellian. I was disappointed when I read about his death in the school newspaper here, but during the time that my high school English class was reading Slaughter-House Five, I wondered when he would go.

He was quite a liberal, Jesus. He may be right about the US being "in ruins," but his vision of a healthy United States is different from yours.
 

I am not concerned if people disagree with me. In this case, why would I be concerned about needing to change the opinions of a dead person?

Intelligent minds converge upon truth. Through social discourse we test ideas and through reason can defeat error.
 

This is a huge error [emphases mine]:

Interviewer: "You’ve stated that television is one of the most viable art forms in the world today."

Vonnegut: "Well, it is. It works like a dream. _It’s a way to hold attention_, and it’s awfully good at that. _For a lot of people, TV is life itself_. Churches used to provide people with better company than they had at home, _but now, no matter what your neighborhood life or family life is like, you turn on the television and you get relatives, family_. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this, but scientists have created baby geese that believe that an airplane is their mother. _Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren’t true, and that’s okay_. And TV is a part of that."

Those are very disturbing beliefs.