With the US farmers losing money, and having no immigrants to help with their farms (since Americans refuse to work on them since they think labor is “beneath” them),

And let’s be honest, shit hasn’t even hit the fan yet.  It’s coming...

Definitely the second one, but even if the first was true, Reagan’s presidency ended in 1989. Those fuckers have had more than enough time to establish a voice for themselves. Already this year groups of teenagers established a voice for themselves within a matter of weeks, and that’s with a government actively…

There was a time when I would’ve said I can’t blame them. In 2018, that time has passed. I’ve made huge mistakes in my life that I’ve had to own up to. They can do the same.

I mean, the answer is clearly education. Educated people who voted for him are just (likely relatively well off) assholes. Uneducated people who voted for him may be assholes, but they’re definitely ignorant.

If you haven’t already seen John Oliver’s segment about the indentured servitude of American farmers, who pay the costs and take the risks while Big Ag makes all the profits, I suggest you watch it and reconsider your lack of sympathy.

Eh. She and her predecessor Terry Branstad have given more than enough fodder to make her re-election chances much harder this fall. The Dems wisely chose a more moderate and experienced candidate to run against her, and his running mate is knowledgeable on rural Iowa and the issues facing that part of the electorate. 

As an Iowan and journalist, I just had the displeasure of writing an editorial letting our readership (70% supported Trump in 2016 - I’m in deep red Steve King country) know that as farmers, you reap what you sow. He promised a trade war, and what do you know, he’s delivering. Of course affected nations are going to pu…

During the Cultural Revolution in China, “intellectuals” (meaning anyone with an education and whom the government didn’t like) were forced to labor in the fields. It didn’t work out well. But don’t think it couldn’t happen here. Trump is already building concentration camps, and they’re not for children - all too…

I am Mexican. Those subsidies that go against free market have destroyed many of our farming communities. Locally grown corn which we have been eating for millennia has been outcompeted by heavily subsidised corn your farmers grow.... Locals have turned to marihuana and poppy, working for drug dealers, or emigrated…

Yep yep yep. Washington State’s apple crops are being turned away in Mexico (QUELlE  SURPRISE!) and they are...unhappy.

I had a similar experience growing up working in cherry orchards in Oregon. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise, though. The average age of a farmer is in the 60s. They’re entitled boomers who rode the wave of post-war economic boom (not to mention the explosion of productivity due to nitrate fertilizers, caused by the…

Good question. I have been around him while he gets into arguments with Trump supporters and it might not surprise you they are resistant to challenges to their world view. It’s hard to say how much he brings it up because I don’t live in my hometown so I’m not around him on a daily basis. It’s a stressful time and an…

Not for much longer, they don’t. I see Trump’s trade wars as an effective way to run the last of the small mom-and-pop farms out of business, forcing them to sell valuable land to corporate farm companies at pennies on the dollar. This is macro shit. These farmers are being betrayed by their own representatives, and…

I work in agriculture, my dad (deceased) was a farmer and a vet (and a nice guy), too. Interestingly, no one I work with voted for Trump. The cohort I’m referring to is mostly college educated, but not all. Most are Midwestern (that’s where we’re located), but not all. I think most would have voted for a Mitt Romney…

Your dad sounds awesome.  It tells me that he’s not the average farmer in America.  You must be proud of him.  

Everyone who wants to vote doesn’t necessarily get to, though.

Yes, agreed that elections matter and that Americans generally suck at it... but the GOP are also doing everything in their power to strip voters of their rights and make it harder for people to voice their displeasure with this single mechanism.

Yes.

It does have a feedback system. It’s called elections.