FrankWilhoit
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months ago
Higher prices are no good if all your suppliers react by raising their prices. Which is exactly what they have been doing, as the video explains.