>>509832483the farmer is a difficult political subject. on the one hand he is a land owner and on the other he is a worker. he is the one profession you need daily, integral to security but at the same time he can't compete without subsidies or tariffs in a globalized world.
both sides want to get at him for something and I see their points but we want healthy, cheap and nutritious food on our tables so to me we should focus on how we achieve that goal instead. not to derail the conversation but the same could be said of military men - exception being that they don't produce commodities - but we want to make them produce lethality so why are we focusing on other things?
whenever we treat someone as a group we should be looking at what we want the group to act like.