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

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155. Some farm just for money

Others do it out of love. If we want to understand the urban-rural divide and political structures, rural primary production is controlled and organized by urban centers to satisfy urban needs. Ie, to serve corporations and big money capitalism. Not of their own choice.

US organized progressive land reforms in Japan and Taiwan after WWII, and Democrats used to support progressive land reform in US until it was completely corrupted by corporate interests, and has been working for capitalist and oligarchic land reform that is going on all the time.

If you look countries with multiparty systems and which have agrarian parties, as we do, you see that while agrarian parties represent conservative values, they are socially and economically for the little guy. Social democratic movement in my country and elsewhere, which originally was progressive land reform party - has become totally urbanized and neoliberal - and anti-rural, bigger and bigger factory farms, less and less local human scale services, all about technocratic concentration and making life more difficult for rural population.