8 Things I Learned While Farming this Summer

[Warpy]

31. I've always admired farmers

Not the agribusiness guys but the guy who clings stubbornly to land handed down to him and who is making a go of coaxing our food out of the ground. I rented a huge plot one summer and turned it into a huge garden and found out I wasn't cut out to be a farmer, even small scale. Oh, I grew enough to break even on what I sold to stores and canned to get through the winter but I could barely move by the end of the summer. I know it's made easier by motorized equipment, but there's still a lot of damned hard work involved. Add even small animals and the work triples.

However, your point #4 is well taken and can partially explain why rural people are such suckers for conservatism, even when you can show them how it's strangling them slowly. The other part, of course, is comprised of the type of churches there are in rural areas, the wingnut churches headed by charismatic frauds. Those churches are the social center of large areas and provide the only social events you can take the kids to and you can bet they're preaching the gospel of the dollar instead of that sissy Jesus stuff.