The farmer is an independent man of many parts; he is living proof of the competence of humans to command their own lives.
As such, he is the first and principal enemy of the modern grasping State.
The Russian kulaks, the Chinese “landlords”; all died in their tens of millions that the State might flourish. The surviving boers stand alone in South Africa.
There aren’t many farmers left in North America...
But you know, after it all boils over, this is who will survive: a farmer with his rifle.