Farmers' Voting Choices and Student Loans

I have a question for farmers, and don't worry,

it's not who did you vote for.

I know you're getting a lot of that right now.

My question is, a few years ago, when student loan

forgiveness was a big subject,

what was your take?

What was your attitude? Were you empathetic and understanding?

Did you say, wow, it sounds like these people need help?

Were you intellectually curious?

Did you say, hmm, I should look into student loan

forgiveness and see what it

actually means? Or were you belligerent and

dismissive? Did you say things like, I never went to college,

why should they get a

free ride? I bet they all got degrees in basket

weaving.

Follow-up question, now that you need help, how does it feel

to be subjected to ridicule, judgment, and scorn?

Here's why the who did you vote for question is important.

In 2024, around 80% of farmers voted for

Trump.

Even though during Trump's first term, his trade

policies were so bad they sent farm bankruptcies

skyrocketing and a $50 billion

subsidy was needed in order to save American farmers,

then you turned right back around and voted for these same

policies.

Why? Was it collective

amnesia? In 2024,

23 Nobel Prize-winning economists said Kamala Harris

has the better plan. 154 surveyed historians,

political scientists, and academics by the numbers pointed

out that Trump was by far the worst president in all of U.S.

history,

and you had just lived through his horrible trade policies, and you

voted for it again.

When student loan forgiveness was on the table, many people said,

including a lot of you, well, they shouldn't have taken out loans they

couldn't pay for.

That's why you get asked, why did you vote for what

everyone knew was going to bankrupt you?