Fun fact! It gets
oppressively (no pun intended) hot here in the deep south.
The subsidy going away is just in time for the long hot summer for one of the poorest states in the union.
I think a lot of Americans in their insulated information bubbles dont really understand the level of economic decimation that has occurred. And now with this administration increasingly hostile to subsidization, it's not going to get any better, and it's really not going to get better in the wake of natural disasters like just happened with Alabama and the tornados. With these States firmly against corporate taxation, eager to cancel programs that are supportive of the poor, and outwardly hostile to demographics they dislike, I dont think the old "leave it to the States" mentality is going to do anything at all. This channel is a guilty pleasure of mine, they dont make political statements but they do give the History and some details of the economic decline. I had an Uncle who lived in Arkansas, an entire town built around a Tyson Chicken plant, that was THE lucrative.place to work. This is the Arkansas delta, which has absurdly fertile farmland. You'll hear Joe say that due to the way farming as automated "you've got a few wealthy farmers, and a lot of poor people trying to eek out an existence." He also talks about the Elaine Massacre, which was essentially scrubbed from History books. Black sharecroppers wanted to Unionize, white farm owners felt it was better to kill them. Here's the video:
Here is a bit about the massacre:
"labor conflicts escalating throughout the country at the end of
World War I, government and business interpreted the demands of labor increasingly as the work of foreign ideologies, such as Bolshevism, that threatened the foundation of the American economy. Thrown into this highly combustible mix was the return to the United States of black soldiers who often exhibited a less submissive attitude within the Jim Crow society around them.
Unions such as the Progressive Farmers represented a threat not only to the tenet of white supremacy but also to the basic concepts of capitalism. Although the United States was on the winning side of World War I, supporters of American capitalism found in communism a new menace to their security."
Isnt it interesting how capitalists always portray literally anything that threatens their wealth as some kind of foreign enemy influence? Like how MAGAtards are always screeching about Marxism despite that likely neither any of them, nor their opposition, have read anything by Marx. How its unfathomable that the working class can just be generally disgusted by wealth inequality and power-imbalance, even though they complain about the exact same sh*t when it suits them. That's why schools dont teach about these labor uprisings, and most people now dont know d*ck about what went on in the US between WWI and WWII, or between WWII and the Civil Rights movement.
This Country brainwashes people on the successes of capitalism while our towns rot, kids become increasingly illiterate, and the wealthy hoarding creates artificial scarcities that cost Americans their lives.
The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the ...
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