[lotsofpulp]

> Farmers like those subsidies, they're a good thing. City people hate them, think they're a bad thing "we spend taxes for farm states"

Could it be because those same farmers turn around and vote against government handouts for everyone else?

[mitchty]

No, from the farmers I grew up with. They hated Democrats for wanting to remove those specific subsidies because it was good for the environment. But to do it it means you have to have land be otherwise "unproductive".

So they get rather angry at being forced to farm every acre of land knowing it will spite themselves later. Its a bit more complex than anyone makes it out to be. But easier to just call farmers dumb and that they vote against their interests. Which is ultimately self defeating and ignores the realities of modern farming and the history of how we got here.