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Farmers voted in droves for tariffs. What did they think they were voting for if not trade wars? What else are they not teaching in rural schools?
by quantified 2y ago
Farmers voted in droves for tariffs. What did they think they were voting for if not trade wars? What else are they not teaching in rural schools?
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_Uni... https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/trump-election-farming-counties-trade-war/ https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/trump-election-far... https://www.terrainag.com/insights/examining-the-economic-crisis-in-farm-country/ https://www.terrainag.com/insights/examining-the-economic-cr...
- jmye 2y agoRight? It’s really hard to muster up any sympathy for people falling victim to the exact thing they were promised by the person they overwhelmingly voted for and which they ignored because they were entirely driven by animus for “the other team”. But I don’t like that it will probably result in even more small farms being sold out to the bigger corporate groups. It seems not ideal to basically centralize (or create circumstances to centralize) all of the country’s farm production.
- quantified 2y agoAlmost all destabilization (motion, to be clear) in the economy results in the large getting larger and the smaller disappearing.