General Discussion

That brand new shiny talking point keeps getting repeated - it's "easy for those who can put food on the table to tell those who can’t or who can’t pay their rent to wait a couple of more weeks." We always had some policies on the farm: we will always be the employer of last resort for those who need a fresh start or a second chance; no one in the county goes hungry so long as we are farming. Housing we can help with. But healthcare? We can't help with that, and it is already a horrific nightmare and the ACA was the bare minimum solution. "Can’t pay their rent" - nothing new there. There is massive housing crisis.

The majority of people in the country are suffering and desperate, We help them by standing up to the Republicans. Failing to stand up to the Republicans renders everything else irrelevant.

You can't know that the critics of the surrender are financially comfortable. It is just a way to smear those with whom you disagree. Many of us here, and this is a very poor county, were prepared and willing to tighten our belts and weather the storm, pulling together to help each other, in the hope that the Democrats were finally going to take the fight to the Republican bullies.

Most every day people here see right through this "we were so worried about you getting food that we sold out to the Republicans to help you" bs. The Democratic party leadership pulled the rug right out from under us.