Pic Of The Moment: What's The Matter With Kansas? (Answer: It's Being Run By Idiots)

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29. Religion mixing with politics is the problem.

I lived in Wichita for eighteen years after university. I worked for Boeing as an acoustical engineer, beginning in the very early 80's.

I became increasingly politically active, rising to county party treasurer and state delegate. I knew three Democratic governors, personally.

But then it all fell apart. We saw what the religious right were doing. We were aware of all the dog whistles to the faithful. But the media portrayed it all as politics as usual.

The Sedgwick County Republican Party was actually hosting a dialup message line called the GodArchy Line where one could hear a daily message about how the Ten Commandments should replace the Bill of Rights. Their monthly newsletter read like a Jack Chick religious tract. It was Jesus this and Christ that in almost every article.

And when Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman lost to religious right Republican Todd Tiarht we knew how bad it was. Somehow Kansas still managed to elect Kathleen Sibelius as governor.

But make no mistake, the Kansas Republican Party is nothing but a fundamentalist Christian religious cabal. It has been that way before I left there in the 90's.