Bible Belt Report: Culled Kept Pols Picking on Cowpokes' Museum

By Mike Caddell

Wichita -- One of four Wichita museums is facing a $100,000 cutback in funding which may force its closure.  It is called “Cowtown,” a tribute to the glory days of white settler expansion and of cattle.  A distant cry is heard from the editorial board of the city’s single daily newspaper, the Wichita Eagle, which ran an opinion piece by Peter Brownlee, titled:  “Why pick on Cowtown?” 

But let’s consider this particular cut more closely.

The public money slashed from the museum’s budget is less than that that was paid during this election cycle as seed money by the Koch billionaires to the state Chamber of Commerce  to  legally  buy the Kansas state government. 

Those little $500 to $1000 checks forwarded by the C of C to Kansas lawmakers’ campaigns, tossed to PACs and lobbyists, and sown each year as brome seed across the tiny Topeka state house, make a better “deal.”  

Common  thinking in these parts goes that if after 50 years,  a museum like Cowtown cannot “make a profit” -- the motivation for all human culture and history  here in Kansas, and probably everywhere in the US of A -- then  it must close, and culture and history be damned.

A substantial number of the elites in Wichita would prefer all the common folk to forget the old “wild west” days, and instead to focus on important things like keepingfluoride out of the water, and keeping as many people as possible legally armed as against each other.  Better to keep Wichita’s teeming humanity  a befuddled herd.. That makes it easierr to ride rough shod as roustabout, pointing the bought-and-paid state politicians’ noses toward the limitless horizon of individual wealth each election year.  

 So the Cowtown museum must go, lest the Wichita majority of “minorities” learn of the early days of democratic “mob justice” and of the current elites’ ancestral days, when whore houses, cattle herds, railroad spurs, whiskey rivers, gunplay and a general state of anarchy was the norm...

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