"Nobody to pick them"... Florida farmers plow their tomatoes under.

[Cirsium]

88. Of course!

That is true in every field. The majority of owners in every sector vote Republican. Farmers don't matter, because there aren't enough of them.

The majority of white women voted for Trump. That had an enormous effect, unlike the mythical "farm vote." Should all women suffer now, because FAFO? Moreover, the majority of farm owners (all kinds of owners really) are white, and farmers vote the way the rest of the white population does. That could be your non-farming neighbors and relatives. What if we were to say "those stupid white people are going to be sorry now!" We would no doubt hear "not all white people," wouldn't we? Or "white women get everything they deserve! They voted for it, and they get no sympathy from me! FAFO time for them!" What would the reaction be to that?

No, we are not dependent on farmers to eat, we are dependent upon agriculture, and that means the entire public infrastructure. That is what I am defending, not the growers and certainly not the 60% who are Republican voting growers. The ignorant and misguided attacks on farmers undermine support for the infrastructure and are very bad politics for us.