Being their own bosses, farmers have a degree of independence that rulers find discomfiting. From Elizabeth Nickson at elizabethnickson.substack.com:
That this opinion below written by Camilla Cavendish in the Financial Times on February 23 is finally reaching through to decision-makers is a case of a little too late. The Financial Times is about six months behind the times. What is happening in Europe runs far deeper and presages far more systematic change than a temporary pulling back on taxes and regulation:
It is a testament to how far political leaders and opinion formers have lost touch with agriculture that so few seem to have seen this coming. Governments that want to tackle climate change seem not have thought through the effects on an industry that is facing rising production costs and falling global food prices.
John Dickenson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were carried from town to town, printed again and again, read out aloud at town meetings, electrifying pre-Revolutionary America. Farmers, said Dickenson, and I paraphrase, are the basis of any culture. Anger them too much, and things change. Plus, they are not beholden to anyone, they can feed and house themselves, they are the base of independence; from their secure houses, new ideas are nurtured. It was why Stalin murdered the kulaks, too uppity, too unpredictable.
No room for the competition.
Another thinker, Henry St. John, the Viscount Bolingbroke, a Tory, founded the Country Party in opposition to the Whig ascendancy, which he called the Court Party, where advancement was doled out via preference and bribery, not the virtue of an idea or proposal. Bolingbroke (unreadable now) said that the country was from where all good things came, ingenuity, creativity, problem solving. It must be heard. Bolingbroke and his friends are credited with the invention of a Parliamentary opposition.
Update that Red Shield bankster quote about I care not who the “elected” rulers are, give me control of the money, and I’ll control the whole enchilada.
Replace it with food and bust out the WWII allied propaganda/morale posters about food is a weapon so clean your plate and don’t waste.
I share some with various animals so that it isn’t wasted and as the Bible says if you have food and clothing and somewhere to come out of the elements then what more do you need.
Love that scene in Beyond Thunderdome where Max gives the youth some wisdom:
And we’ll live a long time and be thankful.
Breaking from the great Tina Turner:
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
Rural will be Bartertown in Wasteland World?