Kansas will get what they deserve.

[leftyladyfrommo]

I can't believe Kansans voted those 2 yokels back in. I really thought they woould lose this time around. I heard last night that Johnson County turnout was big but it wasn't enough.

[kelliekat44]

1. Do they have electronic voting in KS? nt

[LonePirate]

7. Yes which is why I voted by paper ballot.

The Republicans simply turned out more voters in the states two most populous counties which helped Brownback win. The other major statewide races were not even close. We were trounced.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I don't know.

We have paper ballots in Missouri. I just read people voted Repub. Because they wanted a Repub. Senate. I feel like just forgetting about politics all together.

[Sienna86]

3. Please don't lump all Kansans together

There are people in Kansas who wanted Roberts and Brownback to go, and voted yesterday.

But you're right, all of Kansas will see and feel the results of this election. Maybe it needs to get worse before it gets better.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I have relatives in Johnson County. Democrats.

Kansas is just few miles from where I live. I know there. But the right wing has just gotten so crazy. And most of Kansas is so rural and conservative. But how can normal people really believe that the military is building guillotines? Or FEMAis building concentration camps? I'm so disgusted right now.

[RKP5637]

6. As Idiocracy continues to spread and be entrenched across the US, these will seem like the

best of times IMO. So many are so brainwashed, over and over again. It's like they are cut off from meaningful communications. It's not even a question of R, D or I ... it is simply having the ability to think for oneself and ferret out reality from delusional propositions ... and that seems to be totally lacking not only in parts of Kansas, but all across the US.

[JHB]

9. How could "normal people" believe that a decades-old logo was satanic...

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...as happened with Proctor & Gamble's moon logo?

Or believe that KISS (the band) stands for "Knights In Service to Satan"?

There's an entire tradition of hare-em-scare-em bullshit that's been melded with Bircher-style nuttery. Because it opens wallets like nobody's business.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. I knew someone who worked at Proctor and Gamble.

It was nuts.

Are they still in business? Did they ever change their logo?

[JHB]

14. Still in business. Ditched the moon logo in the mid-eighties

They didn't think it was worth the hassle, PR headaches, and potential lost sales.

[RKP5637]

5. Imagine how empowered TPTB in Kansas feel now. Apparently what the TPTB in kansas have been

doing is what a sizable portion of Kansans want and love, not all, but enough to keep them in power. Propaganda works so well. F people over and have them say Thank You. Kansans IMO had better brace for even more misery.

[Loki]

8. How bad does it have to get before they wake the hell up?

Another 258 million dollar revenue shortfall in Kansas and more tax cuts on the horizon. Kansas will get what it voted for, and I don't feel too sorry for them anymore.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I don't either.

Not after this election.

There have been editorials in the Star almost daily about what an economic mess this governor has made of Kansas. We get daily reports on the budget shortfall. It's not like people don't know about this. And they voted the guy in again.

I just don't know how you fix stupid.

[Loki]

11. We didn't do any better on our side of the line.

The Mo Lege added more crazy in Jeff City and the sane Democrats were defeated. I've heard that they want to give us the Kansas model for our schools here and tax refunds for the corporations and wealthy 1 percenters. Got called on another discussion on this board for calling the conservative voters stupid, but ignorance is fixable, this is crazy is stupid and dangerous. Facts and reality based decision making are thrown out the window. God help us.

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. I know. It scares me to death, too.

It's this weird blind allegiance to some mythological ideology.

I swear to God. It's like the Pod People.

[taught_me_patience]

15. Reap what you sow

They'll get what they voted for and I have a hard time feeling any empathy.