Which side are you on?
I have a song to sing to Seth Bodnar. It’s a time-tested tune steeped in a deep history of troubles, much like the troubles of our own time. If Bodnar can’t hear it, this song still might prove useful to the voters of Montana. It frames a vitally important question specific to Bodnar’s candidacy.
The song itself arose in the heat of Harlan County, Kentucky’s long, bloody battles to unionize the coal mines, but from there it spread and endured, rang out as anthem for subsequent progressive battles for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, for universal education, decent wages, all those long Democratic fights for human dignity. In its origins it arose at the apex of a generations-long struggle of common people against the greed of Gilded Age oligarchs, of billionaires, of plutocrats. They called them “plutes” then, but it was the same deal then as now.
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