and the sentiment isn't wrong. There's a cognitive dissonance in farm country that's very profound and very maddening. This administration has been straight up writing checks to farmers to keep us placated while they blow up trade relationships the globe over. But my neighbors will decry socialism up and down. It's bizarre. Decades of bad farm policy have left the industry in the position where it's now required that the taxpayer subsidize the multinational ag titans' ability to buy cheap grain.
Democrats have an opportunity, as Cullen astutely mentions, to make some hay in rural America, and we can do it while meeting the green movement halfway, at least. Turning our large swath of real estate into a more efficient carbon sink, using some of those same dollars we're currently pissing away propping up everyone from syngenta (chemChina) to Marubeni (japan) to bayermonsanto to do it, is good and popular policy.
Messaging is the problem, what with Sinclair, fox, Facebook, etc. We need to figure out a way not so much to change our story but to tell it in a way that can break through, somehow. I am not of the opinion that we hold unpopular positions or ideas, either. Fuck that. We don't have to give up our high ideals to cater to rural mouth breathing trumpsters. We need to do what we believe in and then figure out how to sell it better.
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