The trend is continuing. Iowa data through October show 18 farm bankruptcy filings. That's the largest number since 2020, when the state’s farm bankruptcies hit a high of 37, following a six-year agricultural slump.
Nationally, 181 farmers have filed for bankruptcy protection in the first two quarters of 2025, nearly 60% more than this time last year, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court filings. Arkansas led the U.S. with 19 farm bankruptcy filings, followed by Iowa at 16; Georgia, 15; California, 12; and Nebraska, 11.
Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Georgia... Trump... Trump... Trump... Trump.... Despite 40 fucking years of liberals and leftists scrapping and fighting for them, creating giant benefit concerts like FARM AID, midwestern fucking farmers have not only continued to vote for Republicans but do so more vehemently as they become more and more reactionary.
For decades, since at least Bill Clinton famously said "I feel your pain", we have been offering compassion, care, assistance, thoughts, and every type of outreach to people who continue to slap our hands away, flick us off, and vote for fucking fascists.
Trump won Iowa in 2024 handily. He won in it 2020 and in 2016. What should we make of this?
And yes, I know Iowa went for Barack twice but, that's nearly 15-20 years ago and Iowa has been voting Chuck Fucking Grassley into office for 65 fucking years. So, there goes the whole demographic destiny being on the side of Democrats. At some point we have to abandon these people.
During his first maladministration, Trump bankrupted Farmers and then handed them a big government socialism bailout. This did not alter their voting patterns. This did not cause them to re-evaluate their love of Faux News and their hatred of nearly invisible Trans people. No instead they clung, bitterly, to their white hatred and wedded themselves even more closely to a child rapist conman who fucking sold them out again. A fucking traitor whose most famous for his sexual abuses and bankruptcies... Now of course, he's planning on bailing them out again.
Bigoted whites love their racism and hatred more than they love anything including their own lives and livelihoods. At some point we have to emulate Iowa's favorite son and just let them die...
But, we won't because to Bernie Sanders and his Bros these are the real Americans. These rural whites are the working class he so valorizes. He so champions. The very people who consistently tell him to fuck off with their votes.
*- Look I understand food production should not be a for-profit enterprise. Of all the things which should be under Government control and direction producing food should perhaps be number one. But, rich people have made agriculture into agri-business and that means the horrors of corrupt capitalism now dominate the production of food stuffs instead of it being a common good.
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