We Make Them Do It
by digby
Look here! My old pal Dday has moved far beyond these humble pages and is hanging in very exalted intellectual circles these days. He has a very impressive essay featured in the this month’s Democracy in which he responds to Michael Tomasky’s “Against Despair”.
Of particular interest is the story of Francis Townsend, the grassroots activist usually credited with the enactment of social security. Turns out he was a dirty, hippie blogger of his day. And he was shrill. Very shrill.
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