1/ The betrayal of rural America, particularly the American farmer, began in the 1980s. Before then, local banks worked to support a farmer through a bad yield year, and generous government loans often came with grants for rural communities.
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2/ Starting in the 1980’a the corporatization of agriculture - Big Ag - began its treacherous rampage across the rural heartland. Corporate conglomerates turned farmers into serfs on their own land, destroying topsoil and destroying lives.

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3/ Poverty rampant among farmers & suicide rate higher than average. Farmland controlled by corporate leaders who never even walked the land; 30M acres held by foreign investors. Repubs have duped our farmers and too often Dems have ignored them. Definitely support @JDScholten!
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What was the turning point? Subsidy tiers?
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"Dissolved phosphorus from agricultural runoff is the primary driver of Lake Erie’s harmful algae outbreaks, & a recent report from the USDA-NRCS shows that 84% of phosphorus applied to agricultural land in the Lake Erie Basin is from commercial fertilizers, & 16% is from manure.
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Absolutely heartbreaking.
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it's sad that there isn't a huge leftist presence in the US to correctly identify this issue. it seems like many farmers and others find trump + his populist backlash correct in blaming globalism, migrants etc because they got there before you and Sanders' arguments/worldviews
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period marianne !!! you are so on!!
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Say his name - Reagan