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Old Liberal9/22/2018 8:55:41 am PDT

re: #192 Eventual Carrion

The farmers are starting to realize that putting the foxes in charge of the hen house was maybe a bad idea?

I live in farm country, not for much longer. I’m not getting any sense that rural voters are hanging anything on the orange menace or the republicans in congress. Many people here lack the ability for analysis beyond “if the libs are for it I’m agin it”. I think that the masters of propaganda have thoroughly tied the fact of climate change to “the libtards” and ergo no amount of facts or even personal experience will crack through that. Same with taxes and regulation and immigration and trade. These people have been like this for decades, I remember in the 1970’s farmers were on the radio saying they “want the government out of the ag market, and they want parity at 90%”. Parity was a dairy price support program run by the Federal Government. They aren’t stupid about everything, but they are willfully stupid about many things. Oh, and the egos these people have, apparently they are large and fragile, because once they are shown they are wrong, the entire discussion is over, for good. “That’s just how I feel, and I ain’t gonna change it for nobody”.