I'm always amazed that the majority of farmers...

[SHRED]

...succumb to Trump's ranting, considering their hiring practices that is.

I guess I shouldn't be 'amazed' since exploitation goes hand in hand with racism.

[RKP5637]

1. Yeah, I often think it's a packaged deal. One with racism also links to exploitation, bigotry,

hatred, homophobia and on and on to one degree or another ... with often crazy religion thrown in ... probably along with Fox News!

[hlthe2b]

2. Small family farmers (however rare they are becoming) should not be lumped with your

condemnation IMO. It is a hard life and few have any ability to hire to any degree, much less exploit.

[SHRED]

4. That's why I said "majority" and not "all".

[democratisphere]

3. Don't forget drumpf's $16 Billion farm bailout.

Attracts a lot of misguided loyalty.

[lunatica]

5. It goes hand in hand with white entitlement too.

It’s more than racism, which is basically fear and hate of the other. It’s that feeling that they are so privileged that they don’t need to follow any rules. That they’re special, endowed with privilege given to them by God, strictly on the premise that they’re favored and will never pay a price for what they do.

[SHRED]

6. Great point

[cwydro]

12. My closest neighbor out in the country where I live is a black farmer.

[maxsolomon]

7. They are in a bubble. A giant bubble, but nonetheless.

Rural folk harbor anti-urban resentments as high as an elephants eye.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. This all started with Nixon in 1956

with his Attack on one new Farm Group called the NFO(National Farmers Organization). Nixon spun our new Organization into a arm of the Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa and accusing us of being tied to the Chicago Mob.

The White House at the time,spent millions to convince the Rural Towns that we were the next coming of the Red Invasion. And it worked and we see how Nixon's Big Ag and Big Bank policies have kept Rural America in the GOP back pockets.

All of those Rural White Farmers and Ranchers are still be preached this same garbage yet today. As we were told,you folks out there in fly over land do not know how to market your milk or grain.

Nixon was able to change the Bank of Co-ops lending and ownership rules which is the one item that is causing the farmers from forming their own Marketing groups. Remember the Old Farmers Union,that was our best Marketing arm we had until Nixon changed the Co-op rule. Which caused Farmers Union to be Privatized.

[hunter]

13. So then, how do they fall for the scams of a big city grifter?

I thought these fine people, the salt of the earth, were always supposed to be skeptical of the city slicker in the ill-fitting suit who was trying to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge.

Unless "anti-urban" means RACIST.

[maxsolomon]

15. I don't want to cast too many aspersions on the "Real Americans".

But you are correct; they fell for the con of a city slicker. Rubes is a word that applies to many (and to many elderly voters from the suburbs as well).

He assures them their fears and hatreds are rational and valid, and his wealth carries authority with them.

Scott Adams (who we all despise, right?) talked to Bill Maher back in '16 about Trump's use of persuasive techniques (AKA Con Man techniques), namely "Pacing and Leading" - when he became King of the Birthers. His constant repetition of mnemonic playground nicknames for his opponents stick in the mind as well. You couldn't think "Hillary" without thinking "Crooked". It works on them; it works on everyone.

[Ms. Toad]

8. The folks you are condemning are not really farmers.

They are corporations whose line of business happens to be food production. Not the same thing.

[SHRED]

9. The people I am condemning are

Any small, medium, or large farm owners who support Trump.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Don't confuse agribusiness -

which inlcudes at least the large farm owners (and the "majority" to which you are referring) with real farmers.

[SHRED]

14. Are you suggesting

That the majority of small independent farmers and ranchers didn't vote for Trump?

[Ms. Toad]

17. I'm suggesting that when you talk about hiring practices,

you are not talking about small independent farmers and ranchers.

(Your premise was - voting for Trump is inconsistent with their their hiring practices)

As another poster suggested - small independent farmers and ranchers don't generally have "hiring practices," - labor is generally provided by the farmer/rancher, their children, and neighborhood shared work crews.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. Depends on the farmer. Seasonal workers are needed for food crops that are picked by hand -- fruits,

nuts and vegetables. They're not needed so much for commodity crops such as soybeans, wheat, feed corn, etc., because those crops grow in such a way and are at such a scale that planting, managing and harvest are largely mechanized.