General Discussion

Please remember the republicans and Tump ended the China trade deal which hurt the iowa farmers by greatly reducing our exports of our farm grown grains. Iowa farmers would have been furious except they were bailed out by huge farm “socialist” subsidies. While the rest of the USA were hurting from Trumps economic policies Iowa farmers were happy as a pig in slop —they didn’t have to do anything but sit back and enjoy the bribe that came from endorsing Trump. The large cities in Iowa didn’t benefit much from the subsidies and still aren’t huge Trump supporters. For some reason the Democratic Party in Iowa refuses to tackle local issues such as the decline and closing of schools and hospitals in our rural towns. Iowa went from having some of the best academic public schools and now are in the middle of the pack of declining States. Immigration is needed to perform work on the farms and in construction and service industries yet the iowa gop answer is to lower the age for children to work in dangerous jobs including packing houses. A majority of iowa women want fair and open healthcare, contraception and abortion policies as well as restrictions on guns / background checks. Still all we hear in iowa is Fox News propaganda. Iowa I can turn blue again but won’t without national democratic leadership that focuses on issues important to Iowans.