The Right wing has been very good at building support networks for its members, from which they can derive a lot of benefits. It's the difference between a human connection and connecting with a bureaucrat. Sometimes it seems to me that progressive organizations only connect to people on the level of bureaucracy, and not as people.

It's funny, I read Gilliard's blog for quite a while, but only found out that he was African American a few weeks ago. He'll be missed.