For reference, America’s most farming-dependent counties backed Trump by an average of 78%, up from both 2016 and 2020, despite instigating a trade war in his first term that caused higher prices for farm supplies and decreased agricultural experts.
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And we can’t even enjoy schadenfreud and hope they learn something, because history tells us they won’t and the suffering will extend to everyone anyway.
History teaches us that they must be decimated and driven into seclusion, prison or graves.
The only lesson we should be learning from Germany is how to build a society where even trying to do a cutesy lil Nazi cosplay will get you beaten and imprisoned that exact day.
I wonder how many of these families got their farms through homesteading, the ultimate government handout, and now generations later are fighting the federal government to prevent redistribution
I had the same experience doing GOTV and, now, convincing conservative friends/family to complain to their reps about DOGE/executive overreach. "Musk is evil" is a very, very easy sell—I actually don't think the facts matter, they just think he's a weirdo foreigner. But they still like Trump.
I'm not entirely sure what to take from that, honestly. On the bright side, it makes me think the whole thing is built on a cult of personality, and I don't get the sense that Vance, Eric, or the others have the charisma to take over when Trump dies.
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i can't tell whether this is some weird nationalist hyper-patriotic/authoritarian respect thing or a hate-based thing sometimes. The most reasonable Republicans around are like this, and so are the ones that burn crosses in their yard.
They are ALL like this. They'd rather just not discuss it.
what we need is someone who can give these guys an out-- who can persuade them to vote for them as a Dem by saving their pride and letting them tacitly admit that they made the wrong decision.
Solve for that and we can truly change this country forever
Yes, allowing supporters of violent fascism to escape any accountability for their actions has always been the most effective way to counter violent fascism.
This is why it was so important that nobody face any real consequences for January 6, which enabled the peace and prosperity we enjoy today.🙄
that's not what I mean. I'm talking about the farmers in middle America who are being screwed by the people who they consistently vote for. I think this is becoming more obvious lately and I think pride is getting in the way of them admitting it, and I think we need someone who can bring them in.
it's pride. I'm sure of it. Who likes to admit they were wrong, in general, and who likes to admit they were wrong when it was something as flagrantly wrong as Trump in all the many ways he's wrong, and who likes to admit it when it means you yourself are responsible for hurting your own bottom line
Their motive is hate. They don’t want to talk about it, except to others who are filled with the same hate. They are afraid of the consequences of plainly admitting to us that their motive is hate. But it is.
Wallstreet is always looking for opportunites to buy productive farmland. Trump was marketed (inaccurately) as someone who would stand up to wallstreet.
One farm wife I talked to in the store was going red because I guess there is a program where the government pays for farm workers lunches. She said their adult kids came to work their farm and they were paid to feed them. She said under Biden the amount of that money went down.
Republican voters are so bereft of reason, compassion, and even belief in reality that they will praise Trump and buy MAGA hats even as their children starve to death. They don't care that this will destroy their livelihoods. To them, this is an acceptable tradeoff for "owning the libs".
They learned nothing from Trump nixing the TPP that drove up bankruptcies higher than the latent fallout of the '08 recession in 2012.
We shoveled billions of tax dollars at them to make up for it & they'll expect it again.
This is true.
I live amongst them.
God forbid that 115 trans kids play collegiate sports.
They also hate anyone who is not white.
Hundreds in our TX lakehouse town walked into the arms of death from Covid because Trump and rightwing media told them to.
The GOP is a death cult.
If Trump goes through with tariffs against Canada, farmers will be even more screwed. Canada supplies almost 80% of the potash used in America. It's an essential component in fertilizer.
I know many farmers and farm reliant business owners. They don't think it can happen to them! I've done video & drone surveys of their properties and agricultural related businesses. I don't argue with them about their "political greed." Eventually they are going to learn the hard way that it can.
It sounds like we need to take the farmland away from all the farmers that voted for him and give that land to somebody that knows how to participate in a democracy maybe that 40 acres in a mule needs to be finally acted on
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The only lesson we should be learning from Germany is how to build a society where even trying to do a cutesy lil Nazi cosplay will get you beaten and imprisoned that exact day.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/trump-california-water-policy-farmers-00202751
Do they even listen to themselves?
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They just DON'T. want. to. talk about it. Even if they hate Putin.
Ignore, head down, don't actively try to fix anything.
Worst people imaginable. Absolute worst.
i can't tell whether this is some weird nationalist hyper-patriotic/authoritarian respect thing or a hate-based thing sometimes. The most reasonable Republicans around are like this, and so are the ones that burn crosses in their yard.
They are ALL like this. They'd rather just not discuss it.
Solve for that and we can truly change this country forever
This is why it was so important that nobody face any real consequences for January 6, which enabled the peace and prosperity we enjoy today.🙄
White South African Boer "farmers", that is.
None of whom will have actual experience growing crops.
All of whom will be perfect cogs supporting the same apartheid that built their fortunes.
https://medium.com/@ennuid/george-lakoffs-framing-101-7b88e9c91dac
We shoveled billions of tax dollars at them to make up for it & they'll expect it again.
I live amongst them.
God forbid that 115 trans kids play collegiate sports.
They also hate anyone who is not white.
Hundreds in our TX lakehouse town walked into the arms of death from Covid because Trump and rightwing media told them to.
The GOP is a death cult.
Actual farmers aren't the problem. Folks who like to locate surrounding farming communities are.