... the red states are full of politicians who say all the right backwards things on social issues and then follow it up with the false mantra of "personal acco

... the red states are full of politicians who say all the right backwards things on social issues and then follow it up with the false mantra of "personal accountability," which is a coded phrase which means "rob you blind." The "elite" don't have enough people to vote their guys into power. They need willful idiots. Sam Brownback didn't happen in Kansas because the city dwellers wanted him in power. His disaster of an administration happened because he demonstrated that he understood all of the phobias his constituents have been fed for over a generation now.