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
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