According to my stats, there’s suddenly a flood of interest in my posts from 7 years ago. This is one of them, which reaffirmed my conviction that Jefferson is overrated. He thought farmers the backbone of American democracy. I can’t help but see them as useful idiots to… well, not we, the people.
In electoral politics, at least, farmers are, by popular definition, insane. They keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.
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