Here’s the question of the day: How much pain and punishment
will voters endure before they realize Republican ideas are rubbish?
Unfortunately for the people of Kansas, the answer seems to be “a lot.” Republican
Governor Sam Brownback won a tight race last November even after it was clear
that his experiment in supply side economics was failing miserably and creating
a huge budget deficit.
Today, the deficit stands at $344 million and his answer to
this dilemma is to further cut funds for education, syphon off money from the
state’s pension program and raid funds for essential infrastructure projects.
Oh, and yesterday he took time out from his slash and burn activities to remove gender identity and sexual
orientation from the classes of protected Kansas government employees. Busy
boy.
Aside from the reality that Brownback is a genuinely
horrible human being, the facts in this case seem indisputable; Brownback’s
economic experiment is a disaster by every standard and is sucking Kansas into
a quagmire of debt. This was already evident last November prior to the
elections, yet voters again gave him the green light to savage the state even
further. The loyalty of conservatives to their ideological foundations is
incredibly strong and will not be shaken by reality. Reality is wrong, they
answer through their votes.
How bad will things
have to get before the people of Kansas, and the United States, say enough to failed
conservative ideology?
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