Incredible. Thank you for really laying it out there and giving us a clear psychological and sociological understanding as to WHY people in rural America are voting against their own best interests.

No one on the top rungs of politics, seed manufacturing or banking WANTS this base to overcome anything. It hurts their profit interests. Hitler understood this quite well. Historical examples are plentiful, but history “comes from” the urban elite. Can’t trust that.

Your article illuminates. Start with “all that” and then throw an opioid epidemic, a global pandemic and a recession on top of it—notwithstanding the generations of blinding religion.

Feels insurmountable.

But what do I know? I didn’t drive a tractor until I was eight, and it was a reward for collecting 1000 eggs that morning and only breaking two (which I had to swallow raw to avoid the waste).

Sigh.