Why Farmers Voted For Trump

[Hekate]

14. Sarah Taber is well worth listening to. I follow her on YT. She knows the economics and socioeconomics...

…of farming like the back of her hand, and the practices from the ground up. She ran for office as a Dem last year — I hope she tries again.

I have learned a great deal from her, and confirmed some of what I was pretty sure I knew. When she says modern unregulated farmworker policies are a form of legalized slavery, she means it. (Yeah, I thought so too, and it’s nice to have it confirmed)

Following are some of the things I really did not know

When she says farmers are not poor, and are not committing suicide at a great rate, she backs it up with facts. (The suicide demographic is this: male, rural, gun owner. Owning an enormous inherited farm is a side-issue compared to that. ) As for the “poverty” — also facts. As a class they were in trouble for a hot minute in the 1980s. The rest of that story is a product of lobbying in Washington. Look up her episode in that.

When she says farmers voted for Trump this time because he bailed them out from his policies the last time, she backs it up. Now they are whining that they were lied to. She says what DUers know: no they weren’t, they knew exactly what he said. They just thought they’d be bailed out again. So why did they vote for that POS? Regulations. They don’t want their labor practices regulated. They don’t want their pesticide practices regulated.

When she says the US isn’t growing its own food anymore — my eyebrows went way up. Incredible episode.

Highly recommend looking her up.