Ditto for Kansas, which is home to the Koch brothers, and it is really all you need to understand why the state is messed up. Charles Koch especially wants to destroy our representative democracy in this country so that "libertarians" like him can rule and plunder the country with impunity. He is the textbook example, DSM-V-style, of narcissistic personality disorder.
Not complicated in the least.
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Obituary: John B. Anderson, once a Republican congressman from Illinois who went from being a hard-right weirdo following the likes of Barry Goldwater to a passionate supporter of civil rights, has died at the age of 95.
He ran for president on an independent ticket in 1980 against Ronald Reagan and then-president Jimmy Carter.
Mr. Anderson refused to pander, telling voters in Iowa that he favored President Jimmy Carter’s embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after it had invaded Afghanistan. He called for a gasoline tax of 50 cents per gallon — when a gallon cost $1.15 — to save energy.
Early on, when all six of his rivals for the Republican nomination assured the Gun Owners of New Hampshire that they firmly opposed gun control legislation, Mr. Anderson said, “I don’t understand why.”
“When in this country we license people to drive automobiles,” he added, “what is so wrong about proposing that we license guns to make sure that felons and mental incompetents don’t get ahold of them?”
He was roundly booed.
His backers promoted his campaign style as “the Anderson difference,” but despite it — or perhaps because of it — he never finished better than second in a Republican primary. That came in Illinois, his home state, which he had expected to win. When he did not, losing to Ronald Reagan by fewer than 12 points (Mr. Reagan was born in Illinois), he decided to run as an independent.
They don't make Republicans like this anymore.
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