Rural guy warns small farmers their land is at risk from deregulationfrom @bradley.thor

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I will not use my emotions to make this video, so I will kindly and humbly ask you to not use yours to consume it. I come from a very, very rural part of America. It was not common where I come from for people to go to college. I do not have any judgment associated with that. That is just a fact. I did, however, choose to go to college, but I did use those rural skills that I grew up with to help pay my way through a master's degree. Despite my more progressive leanings, I do not just blindly agree with everything from any party or any group. I've said that. You've heard that. And since we're practicing self criticism, I'll start. I think performative activism has actually broken down a lot of the unity that the left really needs. I think there's a current strange reward system affiliated and associated with people attempting to be the most correct, which can often lead to infighting and then often resulting in the fact that nothing gets done. I also feel that many rural Americans don't even know that the origin of a lot of progressive ideologies actually come from protecting poor, lower, middle class rural America. Again, don't take my word for it. Just do a little bit more reading and research on the history of coal mining towns. Our current administration has actually done a very good job at convincing small businesses, family owned businesses, farms, ranches, etcetera, that they are in it for them. Now being from rural America, I understand that we are one of the most vulnerable populations. It's very hard not to be proud of being rural because there's a lot of self sustenance that comes with it. So it then slowly becomes a part of your identity as you're raised in that world, which is fair, of course. But then people who start to speak to it, who start to exploit that rank gain your loyalty very easily and pull the wool over your eyes. And that, my friends, is exactly what has happened. Removing regulations and restrictions that kept big companies and large corporations. I'm talking about massive corporations removing their regulations while in that same swift move taking away federal assistance and aid that went back into protecting consumers, small businesses, poor, and lower middle class Americans will force a lot of small ranches and farms to have to sell. Now I'm not one of those people that's gonna sit here rank blame one political party for how expensive land is right now, especially for the everyday American. But that's a that's a fact. That is a fact. So the chances that any family or any small business is going to be able to buy those farms, those ranches that come up for sale? Oh, boy. They are slim to none. So who will buy this land? I'll let you take a second. Those same large corporations that are also going to be receiving massive tax cuts. And as we know worse for big businesses can start off okay in the beginning until there's a more inexpensive way to get the job done without you. You will never be chosen over somebody's money. You are not less country. You are not any less country, less tough or less independent when you criticize an administration. You will not wake up tomorrow with blue hair and a vegan. There is a very long list of very sturdy outdoorsmen, land stewards, blue collar workers. You get it. Strong, sturdy people who I have faith in that I know can smell a ruse when they see one coming. Your land is up for grabs right now. I'm not asking you to go register as a Democrat today. I'm not asking you to stop loving the American flag. I'm asking you to please not let it become a corporate logo.