General Discussion

relative to what people in other places have. The American Farm Families have been the foundation of our bounty. But over decades, that has eroded as conditions got tougher for farmers and huge Agri-Corporations started gobbling up land, here and worldwide.

Don't be nasty to the independent producers. Help them get real information and not just the propaganda that has poisoned so many of them into voting against their best interests.

I have lived among them, and hated much of the experience. But I saw them, heard them, and lived pretty much like an anthropologist in their midst. There is much to dislike, too much in fact, but understanding the history, culture, and the problem of modern propaganda has broadened my view and softened my own bigotry against 'rural America'. Do I get furious at the narrow view and refusals to see the realities? Oh yes, and howdy. But I think of them, those neighbors who mostly treated me like an enemy because I grew up urban and West Coast, and I know there is good there, and that their families have fed us for generations, while getting damned little in return for the worry and hard work.

A contact to the area where I lived has told me of many suicides in the past decade. It's not pretty and there are many reasons for that population to distrust. The powerful know fearful, distrustful people are SO much easier to manipulate/control. It's by design, this divide in our nation.

The powers that be like it when we are a people at war with ourselves. It's kinda counter productive to let those few manipulate us like they manipulate rural populations. Don't fall into the trap. Please.