A Mid-Term Wake-Up Call from Kansas

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   A Mid-Term Wake-Up Call from Kansas
By Ron Estes

September 10, 2018 6:30 AM

Socialists believe they can win in Kansas. Republicans shouldn't underestimate them.

Candidates backed by socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won an upset victory in her primary in New York, are hardly running the table this primary election cycle. But they are winning in unexpected places.

The latest example is last month’s upset victory by Andrew Gillum, a Bernie Sanders–backed candidate, in the Democratic primary for governor in Florida. A socialist-backed candidate, James Thompson, also won the Democratic primary in the district I represent, Kansas’s fourth congressional district, which comprises Wichita and a large swath of south-central Kansas.

Socialist luminaries Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders made a special stop in Kansas in July to stump for Thompson and to make a point: If socialists can win in Kansas, they can win anywhere. At a rally for him, Ocasio-Cortez invoked Kansas’s history of being a bellwether, going back to 1861 when it became a free state. “Kansas was founded in a struggle over the conscience of this nation,” she said. “Kansas has delivered before, and it will deliver again.”

Thompson and Ocasio-Cortez have it in reverse. Kansas is indeed a free state at its core. But it will deliver the nation from, not to, the shackles of socialism.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/midterm-elections-kansas-socialists-think-they-can-win/

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Socialist luminaries Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders made a special stop in Kansas in July to stump for Thompson and to make a point: If socialists can win in Kansas, they can win anywhere."

Not really. Big farm states in the north and west have always tended to be socialist because big farmers LOVE government crop guarantees,crop banks,special tax deductions,etc,etc,etc. This is especially true of big farm states that only have a couple of big cities for the professional welfare class to congregate around the "free housing","free food",free medical care",etc,etc,etc.

Big Farm has the money to buy politicians and Big Welfare has the votes and the idle people hanging around with nothing else to do that are willing to attend political events and wave banners for 10 bucks a hour,off the books.

There USED to be a lot of states with big industrial bases to counter the parasites,but thanks primarily to the Clinton and Bush Crime Families,industry with high-paying factory jobs are about as common as unicorns these days.