I follow Jonathan Edward Durham on social media for his wryly funny comments. He likes to poll his followers on all kinds of silly stuff (we are almost universally not fans of hot weather, it seems, and great lovers of grilled cheese sandwishes cut in quarters on the bias). He is gay and pro-library, which apparently enough to trigger some people, and recently he got asked “what radicalized you?” His response was “Wishbone and Mr. Rogers.”

So he posed that question to his followers, and it turns out Mr. Rogers had the most influence on people, followed by Star Trek, The Golden Girls, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, the Muppets, M*A*S*H*, Captain Kangaroo, MacGyver, the A-Team, the Fellowship from The Lord of the Rings, and Scooby-Doo. (Yes, Jonathan is Gen X and so are most of his fans.)

“Shows where people wanted to help each other,” is how one person summed it up.

No big leftist conspiracy to groom anyone. Just shows about connection, being kind, reading, figuring out stuff, and helping. Radical shit!