Let's talk putting light at the end of the tunnel.

We're already talking reform to ensure the Supreme Court reflects the will of the governed. Good. We need that.

We also need something else to secure it.

We need to reverse a century of purging workers from the countryside.

The rural US is depopulated & heavily conservative. That's not an accident.

It was made that way by centuries of land theft, and ethnic and anti-worker purges: Jim Crow, sundown towns, Japanese incarceration, and more.

There's nothing natural about this map.

If the current pattern of blue voters clustering in a few cities holds, we're fucked. Even if we can make the democratic reforms we need, we won't be able to hold onto them.

We can't keep living this way.

So I'm proposing we get the countryside back.

This isn't a wild proposition. There are a lot of farms that want to retire and don't necessarily have anyone to take over.

I aim to help make that happen.

And as luck has it I'm a pro at on-farm food processing, aka the thing that makes farms able to support lots of people.

This can help with other problems too: the broken food system, untenable costs of living, and basically everything else that's fucking up everyone's lives rn.

But there are also valid reasons we haven't done it. It's fuckin hard. It takes a good network in the farm community & working hand-in-hand with the outnumbered but vibrant rural left.

There's also repopulating a working countryside (good) vs just gentrifying it (ugh).

Bottom line, we have a mighty need to rebuild the countryside & bring power back to the many Indigenous, immigrant, Black, and poor white folks already living there.

It's a longstanding debt. And masses are finally waking up to how we'd better cash it in to save our own skins.

I have a lot of insight into how to make that happen. I have years of experience working in a weird niche of the food system that can support a lot of people in rural areas.

We should talk.

Right now, we need to focus on winning this election.

But after election day... yep. We should talk.

Watch this space.