We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You [video]

3 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by like_any_other

4 Comments

FrankWilhoit

11 hours ago

They will only become all the more determined to vote for the Republican Party, because it is the party that promises them (someday, by and by) a permission structure to take direct revenge against their class enemies -- not the real ones, but the ones that they prefer to imagine.

like_any_other

11 hours ago

Neither party has done much trust-busting recently [1], and farmers specifically call out the monopolies squeezing them in the video. It seems you're basing you assertion, that they don't know who their economic enemies are, on mistaken stereotypes.

[1] But one party is big on rhetoric, and has delivered some concrete followup, on promises to disadvantage the farmers whose ignorance you're asserting: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/05/how-bidens-sba-is-doing-on-g...

And, more broadly speaking, the ideology that party promotes has disadvantaged them in many other areas as well: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

tim-tday

10 hours ago

The problem farmers are facing is that prices of their goods cratered this year due to reduced demand caused directly by retaliatory tariffs on all their goods. A trade war orchestrated by the person they voted for and who is waging a trade war nobody asked for or needs.

like_any_other

11 hours ago

Sorry about the title. The video is about monopolies (Bayer, John Deere, Cargill) squeezing farmers, after having consolidated their respective markets.

John Deere got the video taken off YouTube for two weeks. In case it disappears again, they also posted it on Twitter:

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/2002104407656133095