re: #157 Charles

Sigh. I know to you the word “socialist” connotes everything horrible in the world, but at the beginning of the last century, when Helen Keller declared herself a “socialist,” the term did not have anywhere near the negative connotation it has today. There were a lot of highly respected intellectuals in America and the rest of the world who read Marx and agreed with his ideas.

In other words, when people like Glenn Beck smear Helen Keller, they’re doing it in an extremely dishonest and historically ignorant way.

Sure didn’t keep Dwight D. Eisenhower away from her. And this was during the run up to the climax of the Cold War. Times sure have changed.