My Egalitarian Take on the video: OREGON URGENTLY SHUTS DOWN SMALL FARMS EN MASSE 'To Protect The People'
The issue is genuine versus fake democracy
When you watch this video (h/t to J.O. for pointing me to it) you will see how our fake democracy works:
The farmer talking in this video describes in detail how the state government of Oregon is doing things that, apparently, most people in rural communities think is morally wrong. The farmer points out that the small farmers who object to the state’s shutting down of small farms are totally desirous of protecting the ground water, the protection of which is the pretext being used by the state to shut down the small farms. There seems to be an ulterior motive behind the state’s shutting down of small farms.
The reason this can happen is because we have a fake, not a genuine, democracy. Our fake democracy is one in which the sovereign authority is in the hands ONLY of a relatively small number of people (the elected politicians) meeting in a state capital (in Oregon it’s Salem) and passing laws and making executive decisions that everybody in the state is required to obey. This is a recipe for oppressors (Big $ people) to dominate the entire population of the state, just by gaining influence over the small number of people with sovereign authority, by bribes of one sort or another or other means that people with lots of money can and obviously do use.
Genuine democracy (as I write about here) is what the small farmers of Oregon need, and no doubt would say they want if anybody ever asked them. Genuine democracy means that the sovereign authority (meaning there is no higher authority) in a local community is the local assembly of egalitarians. The membership of this local assembly is every adult who lives or works in the local community who a) supports the values of no-rich-and-no-poor equality and mutual aid and fairness and truth, and b) wishes to participate in the local assembly as an equal with all others, and c) agrees that the local assembly has a right to make and enforce the only laws that everybody in the local community must obey.
In a genuine democracy, ordinary people such as the small farmers would have the real power would make decisions that reflected their concern for protecting the groundwater AND their concern for protecting small farmers. Whatever specific decisions the local assembly of egalitarians (which would include all the small farmers in the given local community who supported egalitarian values and who wished to participate in it) would make regarding the groundwater, those decisions would have the support of most if not all of the small farmers.
Enjoyed your thoughts on how governments are targeting small farmers by forcing them to incorporate the same certified waste infrastructure that is required by a very large and wealthy farmers. These acts certainly reek of the same Predatory Logic that has brought us to the elimination of small businesses on Main Street USA vs Walmart, + Amazon + Costco who all now buy in Global Markets and use Large Interstate Trucking outfits to transport their goods vs Smaller Independent Driver's. In PA Big Agri is so concerned about the runoff of soil into the Susquehanna river basin but strangely not at all by their Mega Warehouses that have popped up along every East- West main arteries that are owned by the very large National Transportation companies. Or by any emissions that never get checked by any State Registered emission testing center. After I retired, I drove a truck for 9 years.... The truck had to be inspected twice a year. NEVER was the engine emissions ever tested.... and no sane trucker would ever complain about that.. just fork out the usual $100+ and be glad to go on his way.
I know all of Europe is having major protests by farmers on various issues so this whole action by the Globalists seems to be to move all food implementation into the hands of
a very few Rich Men , like Bill Gates.... Who will then very happily poison us all in the name of Nutrition.
Frankly, I cannot understand why these small farmers , especially the dairy farmers who don't stick together at all against the Co Ops that are singlehandedly destroying them.
Neither are the Independent Trucker's.... Where there is really only the OOIDA organization that helps them. I always saw it as.... both jobs entailed a person to be independent in nature in order to perform the types of duties that those types of jobs required. But it was that independence that ultimately is there undoing when faced against a strong unified foe.
Sometimes I think that all the Have,-Nots share that same character trait.
just saying