His book was a hatchet job on Kansas and Kansans, and there is no reason to expect this “film” will be any different. The author is an intellectually dishonest Liberal toady of the Michael Moore ilk, and the book set out to make Kansans look like loser hicks who weren’t smart enough to vote for the Democrats who might actually help them. What is wrong with Kansas? They didn’t vote a straight Democratic Party ticket. More agitprop from the Left. I am sure all 12 of the people in the film’s audience will love it. And I have nothing whatsoever to do with Kansas.
These ideas are related to the ‘bitter clingers’ stereotype.
I don’t even buy the simplest details of his story. My college town in 1983 was 60 miles from the nearby big city and I heard numerous radio stations from that city. Kansas City is only about 40 miles from Lawrence (Douglas and Johnson counties are adjacent) and presumably had many radio stations in common even in 1983.
Or just obtuse. It never seems to occur to him that those benighted voters just might have an understanding of liberty and how it must be defended against do-gooders and their freedom killing redistribution schemes. It also never occurs to him that somebody might have a moral objection to using government to steal from others, and vote accordingly, regardless if little Tommy they make the wrong choice.
Yes, I formed pretty much the same opinion of him before I even saw your post. Please see my posts #s 15 and 18.
Correction: Please see my posts #s 13 and 18.
“At the New York screening, somebody got up from the crowd and asked the ‘luminaries’ who were onstage with us, ‘How do we teach these people from Kansas?’ I’m thinking, ‘It’s not the people from Kansas who need to learn, it’s you.’”I enjoyed Frank's The Conquest of Cool, but Caleb Stegall is a better Kansas populist than Frank.