Make the Groceries Free: A Political Program for Our Benighted Times
Looking for something else tonight, I ran across this piece from six years ago. Thought it was worth a reprise. As I put it then: Here are some lines first set down in the typescript of a 14-page songbook, “Alonzo Zilch’s Own Collection of Original Songs and Ballads,” written by a 23-year-old high school dropout named Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in 1935. With only the slightest revision in the presidential moniker, it could stand as a viable and vibrant political program for our day. If I was President RooseveltI’d make the groceries free —I’d give away new Stetson hatsAnd let the