Progressive Democrats Despise Rural America and Don't Care Who Knows It

Kamala Harris's frenzied minions hate rural America and have written it off in their frantic campaign to put their addled candidate into the White House. In their fevered minds, the battle for control of America's soul is not a conflict between blue states and red streets; it's a war between Democratically run cities and the rural and small-town heartland.

It is true that the Dems tried to sell Tim Walz, Kamala's running mate, as a common-sense Midwesterner, but the hayseeds smoked him out as a buffoon who can't load a shotgun. They derisively mock him as "TamponTim," a moniker that may or may not be fair.

The progressive Dems showed their hand years ago when Obama referred to rural Americans as bitter rubes clinging to their religion and their guns, and Hillary referred to them sneeringly as "a basket of deplorables." 

Indeed, today's Democratic party bosses are much like the Russian Bolsheviks, whose idea of ideal proletarians were urban factory workers too dumb to realize they were being manipulated by their Communist overseers.

Robert Conquest, in his study of the Bolsheviks' ruthless suppression of the Russian peasants, wrote that Stalin considered the peasants to be mere "scum" and that Marx compared them to "a sack of potatoes."

The Soviet apparatchiks in Moscow simply could not understand the Russian peasantry--people who lived close to the land, dwelled in small, close-knit villages, and had a mystical devotion to their religion and Mother Russia. 

 

Thus, Stalin falsely defined the Russian kulaks as anti-revolutionary capitalists and deliberately starved millions of them to death. In Stalin's mind, Russian peasants were a basket of deplorables who should be wiped from the face of the earth.  One might say the Russian peasants were getting in the way of Stalin's politics of joy.

 In two weeks, the election will be over, and America will either return to sanity or the nation will descend into the mind-fuckery that brought the nation transgender school sports and Venezuelan drug gangs. 

 
If Americans are stupid enough to elect Kamala as president, then America is done. We will no longer be the land of the free and the home of the brave. 

If Kamala is sworn in as our nation's commander and chief, in my view, rural and small-town America will become more of a backwater than it already is--a land of rising mortality rates, drug dependecy, joblessness, and suicide.

But who cares? Kamala's fawning press corps refers to the people in the Heartland as "white Christian nationists, which, of course is a code word for fascists.

I'll have a word salad to go and a basket of deplorable fries..

Department of Agriculture Wants Farmers to Grow Two Crops a Year: I'm From the Government, and I'm Here to Help

 The world's grain supplies are threatened by the war in Ukraine, one of the world's largest wheat producers. In fact, Ukraine and Russia together produce a quarter of the world's wheat.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, always ready to lend its expertise, wants farmers to start growing two crops yearly instead of one to help meet the global demand for grain.

Those dumb farmers. It's a good thing that the federal government is telling them what to do, or we'd probably all starve to death.

But here's the thing. American farmers are already doing everything they can to maximize the productivity of their land. In Louisana, some farmers are harvesting crawfish in their rice fields. Alfalfa farmers get anywhere from four to six cuttings a year--depending on rainfall and weather conditions.

My father farmed winter wheat in the Washita valley of southwestern Oklahoma. He planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer. And, like wheat farmers all over the United States, he often planted a second crop after plowing the wheat stubble.

Here's my point. Centralized control of agriculture can be dangerous. Stalin tried to control grain production in Ukraine in the 1920s by driving small farmers off their land and forcing them onto collective farms.

The result of Stalin's policies? Almost four million Ukrainians starved to death, and collective farms produced less grain than independent farmers.  

You can read about this sad episode, commonly called the Holodomor, in Anne Applebaum's book, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. Mr. Jones, a 2019 movie starring James Norton, also tells the story of the Holodomor.

I don't think American farmers will suffer from federal agricultural policies like the Ukrainian kulaks did. Nevertheless, we should be skeptical of news stories that tout the wisdom of national farm policies as if the farmers in flyover country don't know what in the hell they're doing. 

In fact, farmers are among the few people in America who do know what they're doing. We would all be better off if we had more farmers in Congress and fewer lawyers.

I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.