5/1/2023 0 Comments Instafeed gantryCities large and small across the state still hold out against water fluoridation, while one tiny hamlet takes the additional step of requiring firearms in every home. The Kansas school board draws the guffaws of the world for purging state science standards of references to evolution. Under the state’s simple blue flag are gathered today some of the most flamboyant cranks, conspiracists, and calamity howlers the Republic has ever seen. In the decade that followed they elected Populist governors, Populist senators, Populist congressmen, Populist supreme court justices, Populistcity councils, and probably Populist dogcatchers, too men of strong ideas, curious nicknames, and a colorful patois. Driven to the brink of ruin by years of bad prices, debt, and deflation, the state’s farmers came together in huge meetings where homegrown troublemakers like Mary Elizabeth Lease exhorted them to “raise less corn and more hell.” The radicalized farmers marched through the small towns in day-long parades, raging against what they called the “money power.” And despite all the clamor, they still managed to take the state’s traditional Republican masters utterly by surprise in 1890, sweeping the small-town slickers out of office and ending the careers of many a career politician. The most famous freak-out of them all was Populism, the first of the great American leftist movements.* Populism tore through other states as well-wailing all across Texas, the South, and the West in the 1890s-but Kansas was the place that really distinguished itself by its enthusiasm. (All were in the Midwest.) In 1910 Theodore Roosevelt signaled his own lurch to the left by traveling to Kansas and giving an inflammatory address in Osawatomie, the onetime home of John Brown. In that same town, in 1908, Eugene Debs gave a fiery speech accepting the Socialist Party’s nomination for president in 1912 Debs actually carried Crawford County, one of four he won nationwide. Maps of the state from the 1880s show a hamlet (since vanished) called Radical City in nearby Crawford County the town of Girard was home to the Appeal to Reason, a socialist newspaper whose circulation was in the hundreds of thousands. It was as though the blank landscape prompted dreams of a blank-slate society, a place where institutions might be remade as the human mind saw fit. In Kansas, though, the radicals kept coming out on top. Every part of the country in the nineteenth century had labor upheavals and protosocialist reform movements, of course. After the two sides left it was revealed that the ‘Teddy’ who had departed was actually Kl’rt who had used his super Skrull powers to impersonate Teddy thus allowing the young man to remain on earth with his friends.īut its periodic bouts of leftism were what really branded Kansas with the mark of the freak. The Kree and Skrulls came to agree that Teddy would spend half the Earth-year with the Kree and the other half with the Skrull and decide on his on which side he would ultimately declare his ultimate allegiance to. The only solution that Teddy saw to end the conflict was to surrender. A battle ensued between the Kree and Skrull forces as well as Teddy’s Young Avenger allies. Just then, solders of The Kree arrived, claiming Teddy as their own. Altman and insisted Teddy return to Skrull space with him so to unite the fractured Skrull Empire. Altman’s shapeshifting abilities and revealed her to be a Skrull. Teddy had trouble believing this but was convinced when Kl’rt used a device that neutralized Ms. Teddy was told that his true name was Dorrek VIII, grandson to the former Skrull Emperor and heir to the throne. Following further adventures, Teddy was abducted by The Super Skrull known as Kl’rt.
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