If The Dems Made A Concerted Effort To Appeal To Rural Voters What Would You Recommend They Do?....

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First, the declaration of Independence is not the law of the land, it was a letter to those who needed to know. Kind of, I am quitting but before I leave I have something to get off my chest.

The particular constitutional question would be, taking land without due process and how to justify that it is in the public good. Not very many cases have gone the way of the government taking land and giving it to others for distribution. Most often it is used to take land to create right of ways for roads or other infrastructure.

As for the stealing the land from someone else in history, yea ... that is war and the results of it. Well you may not like it, it has been that way since the beginning of time, everyone got their land from someone else.

Ongoing land reform that you speak of I am not familiar with, or certainly not familiar with it being a good thing.

Let's take Cuba... After the revolt in 1959 Casto's government confiscated billions in private land for "official" use, at that same time they also crushed free speech and nationalized just about everything that made money. Now, some 50 years later over half of the usable land in Cuba sits idle. They are in the process of granting access to that land to people who will commit to use it to increase domestic production of food, and are having huge issues with it, people know the stories of government confiscating land that has value so are hesitant to put forth resources to make the land prosperous. They are not giving them the land, they are giving them the rights to use it for a term. That is certainly not a very good example of "land reform".

You are correct that in some urban areas the community is taking back land and putting it to good use. I am sure you are also aware that the local governments are attempting the stop them from doing that ... not help them.

Of coarse no one likes the exploitation of immigrant workers, but to assume that all rural land owners act that way and speak of them all as some evil human beings who steal from the rest of the world is not helping you get their vote.