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David Smith's avatar

It isn't hard to find out how thoroughly things are going to hell in a handbasket from the perspective of those of us here in Canada and the US - all you have to do is look past the tall tales that the MSM keep telling on the CIA's orders. We're going to destroy Russia, right? And something or other is going to happen in the Holy Land - we won't say exactly what so that we don't anger one side or the other.

Here is where I come for hope. Not that I don't find out details about the terrible things that the Greenies are doing or the Pharma Assault on our basic being, but that there is push-back. There are real people who are saying "Enough!" and doing something about it en masse, even if they are on the other side of the Pond right now. The first impetus was from Canada's Own Truckers and there's reasonable hope that Canada and the US will pick up the torch again, and hopefully before the Election down south turns into a shooting war.

Thank you, Elizabeth, for all you are doing for us.

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Why farmers? What is it about people who work the land for a living taking all the risks nature can throw at them, figuring out solutions daily independently to be successful? The term "Populism" according to Thomas Frank in "The People, NO" originated in 1891 when US farmers banded together to counter the elite actions of the time which left farmers poor as elites became wealthy from food production. Today, the elites claim farmers are the cause of every imagined climate and geopolitical crisis when in fact it is the elites' policies.

My experience living in rural America is that farmers have one thing in common, they live by the truths they give to others. They honor their commitments but demand fairness in return. Very basic stuff but they do the everyday without written contracts to counterparties. They are the basis of Common Law to which they are attuned. They form the base character of any nation with that character diminishing with the increasing height someone in society operates up the social ladder.

Farmers are deemed crude because they work with their hands batting the elements. They are deemed unsophisticated in their thinking but they have the most connected but unarticulated basic understanding of human interaction and fairness on which they daily rely. They act on truth and fairness every day with actions speaking louder, having greater influence, than words. That is why farmers are the base of any country's character and rarely recognized by the rest of us not so connected by our daily lives.

Understanding the value of each service on which society depends is increasingly lost in direct proportion to how large government becomes with its multitude of hangers-on. Schaller and Waldman just released "White Rural Rage". Their description of rural America reeks of the self-important bias elites hold for average people. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/msnbc-segment-calling-white-rural-voters-most-racist-in-the-country-raises-eyebrows/ar-BB1jaQNl Paul Krugman has stated that all of society's value is created in cities. An interesting perspective for a world famous economist (in his own rarified circle) when everything on which cities rely are grown and manufactured in rural America. The ingenuity to produce does not come from cities but from individuals who have hands-on experience with production who continuously find better means towards faster, better and cheaper. Without producers, cities would collapse within hours.

Populism is being described as "White Rural Rage" when in fact what the elites are hearing is the long unarticulated set of basic values in the US Constitution which was created by farmers in 1789.

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