We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You [video]

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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.

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/

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.

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.

Sorry about the title. The video is about monopolies (Bayer, John Deere, Cargill) squeezing farmers, after having consolidated their respective markets.

John Deere got the video taken off YouTube for two weeks. In case it disappears again, they also posted it on Twitter:

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/2002104407656133095

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