Farmers Stick With Trump

[markbark]

From NPR: Farmers Sticking By Trump Even As Trade Wars Bite

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.

You can eradicate ignorance with education, but stupid is incurable

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Fucking idiots...

they deserve everything they're going to get if he's re-elected.

[Canoe52]

2. The republican party is a cult.

they all need to be deprogrammed.

[CrispyQ]

3. This is the result of over three decades of unchallenged hate radio.

Ignoring hate radio was & is the stupidest thing the dems ever did!

[MuseRider]

8. I keep saying the same thing

but in all these years nobody wants to hear it.

Hate is strong AND it is understandable but I will stick with the farmers, I am one and I do not know many who are pro Trump. Most of those that I did know were only anti Hillary but nobody would hear that either. Most of them around here have dropped the MAGA hats for silence. I have seen a total of 1 MAGA hat since this all began, 1.

Ya gotta have enemies I guess. Hate radio 24/7 with a day of freaky, country fundamentalism and there is little room for thought.

[CrispyQ]

13. We'd be better off if that billionaire, Steyer, running for president, would take his money

& buy a couple of radio stations in the heartland, hire some top notch writing talent, & run them at a loss if he has to. But no. No one will do that. Rich donors. Party leadership. I guess their reasoning is that liberals don't listen to AM radio, so why would we put liberal programming on AM radio? I honestly believe that given a choice, most people will choose humor over fear & hate, but our side doesn't even offer an alternate message. We wrote off all of rural America with that short sighted move.

[MuseRider]

19. I so agree.

If you have never been isolated in one of the very small and very spread out communities that many or most farmers live in you would not know how hard it is to break in to change minds. Here in Kansas our party has left out almost half of the state for years and until we had Dr. Dean's 50 state strategy we could not get a Democrat elected easily. Once that money stopped it seems like it took them a long time to get back to covering the state. We are doing that better now I think but something like a radio station would do a lot of good. I think the point should not be mainly for Dems but a station that would cover a lot of things with a more liberal flavor. They will listen. The farmers out here that I know who are R's are not crazy. There are some, of course, but most are open minded about a lot more than other people might know but they are only hearing what the crazy R's say and that is so prevalent that it is very hard to break through.

Whatever. People have to have enemies and the farmers have not proven themselves to be influenced by Dems easily or quickly. There are reasons, mostly the fault of the Dems, but that is not changing fast enough. At least here in my state if the R is crazy enough (Kobach for one) they usually do not get elected more than once or twice (lol, hard to imagine) but I say that when my own Congressman is as dumb as any I have ever known.

[Zoonart]

12. THIS!

[Hoyt]

15. Ignorant white wingers don't listen to liberal stations, like the long gone Air America.

Takes a certain kind of person to tune into hate radio, and not recognize the lies pretty quickly.

[CrispyQ]

22. Sadly, the dems share your attitude. -nt

[tman]

4. Many on here were deluding themselves

excitedly proclaiming he was being abandoned by:
Fox News
Farmers
Senate Republicans
etc...

Maybe time to wake up for 2020.

[AJT]

6. After 3 years they are not deluding themselves.

They are basically angry white supremacists.

[AJT]

5. Hope you go down with him....

[Hotler]

7. Go for it farmers but, remember, no bitching. and if the going gets a little tough...

just pull on them bootstraps harder.

[bdamomma]

9. it is their choice

to be taken down by this idiot if they choose to loose their livelihoods. They just don't get it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. This country was built on racism and white supremacy. It runs deep.

[LeftInTX]

11. Most of the stories about farmers rejecting Trump were anecdotal

They all went for Reagan too when farms were foreclosing at a rapid pace.

Farmers are for the most part into agribusiness
They don't like environmental rules.
Trump is giving them aid to offset the tariffs.

[lunasun]

14. Did their government bribe aid and scorch the earth chemical rep.gifts all come in for the harvest?

[BlueStater]

16. Hard to fell sorry for people so goddamn dumb.

At this point, they deserve whatever misfortune that fat asshole brings upon them.

[Aristus]

17. Well, no one really thought those plow-jockies would wise up, did they?

Spend your life around vegetables, become one yourself, I guess...

[keithbvadu2]

18. Trump is buying their loyalty with his tariff taxes imposed on the rest of us.

Trump is buying their loyalty with his tariff taxes imposed on the rest of us.

[Garrett78]

20. 50+ years of increasingly cruel and unhinged rhetoric and policy created a monster.

Trump is a symptom.

[bullwinkle428]

21. When the next Democratic President brings back your markets,

are you going to properly thank them, farmers?