Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face 'Widespread Collapse'

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5. Eaters

It is the eaters who will suffer, not the growers.

Farmers - farm owners - are tiny percentage of the population, not big enough to affect election results even in the districts that are most heavily agricultural. Farm owners vote along the same lines as most business owners do, they skew Republican. Here in a mostly farm district, there are 300 or so growers, and they vote 55-45 Republican typically, yet well over 10,000 people voted for Trump.

It's not the farmers, nor the ranchers, nor the cowboys, nor the lumberjacks, who put Trump in office. That is all an illusion, from Reagan on horseback to Bush's phony ranch to Trumps macho cosplay.

Acres don't vote. A very small percentage of rural voters are farm owners. The Republican base is not farmers, ranchers, cowboys, and lumberjacks. Rather, there are a lot of Republican voters who identify with fantasies about various "rugged individualist" stereotypes. That is a component of the white settler project, of white nationalism.