...if people refuse to be challenged...

On Sunday, August 19, 2012, Lawrence Downes wrote a piece titled "As Woody Turns 100, We Protest Too Little" for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Here is something that struck me as interesting as we wrap up Enough's Enough!:

"In October the Kennedy Center will throw a centennial party for Woody Guthrie, a star-studded concert with tickets topping out at $175. It will be America's ultimate tribute to a beloved troubadour. "Through his unique music, words and style," the Kennedy Center says, "Guthrie was able to bring attention and understanding to the critical issues of his day."
Poor Woody. The life and music of America's great hobo prophet, its Dust Bowl balladeer, boiled down to this: He brought attention to the critical issues of his day...
But under the saintly folk hero has always been an angry vigilante-a fascist-hating, Communist-sympathizing rabble-rouser who liked to eviscerate his targets, sometimes with violent imagery. He was a man of many contradictions, but he was always against the rich and on the side of the oppressed.
He wrote hard-hitting songs for hard-hit people...
Woody's musical heirs tried their best...
It's hard to be a troubadour with dangerous ideas if people refuse to be challenged or offended by them."