Farmer bailout is yet another funnel to white men

[MontanaFarmer]

3. As a farmer and a white man,

I completely agree with the OP. Farm groups, including mine, have been crying for help, but I think it's the wrong approach. It's a bandaid meant to hold the political line. Plus, one can't help but notice the hypocrisy dripping from all this, what with these folks often screaming the loudest about socialism and government overreach.
I wonder what we expect from this magical new trade deal, should it happen? Folks expect this to solve all our issues, but if we really want a surviving rural America, and a diversified food system, farm policy needs an overhaul. Supply management/ inventory control on the big 3 commodities, more incentives for species diversification and for young and small producers, and force the big guys to take more risk if they want to expand, rather than continuing to subsidize farms getting as huge as they want.
But back to the OP, this is about trump shoring up votes, and my contemporaries have shown no sign that they're smart enough to see through this clown. What sucks, and what I'd ask folks in the DU community to consider and remember, is that while farmers are largely trump supporters, in reality there's a ton of us out here quietly resisting, using this opportunity to sow seeds of democratic ideas back into rural America, and a kind word for us amongst the farmer bashing never hurts.