Iowans will in the end vote self interest and for the subsidies.
We get thieves for politicians because we have voters who want the stolen goods.
Because people are greedy and politicians are savvy enough to bribe the people with their own money.
Representative democracy has given way to Bribeocracy (which will ultimately lead to socialism), and Market capitalism has given way to Crony capitalism (which will ultimately lead to the US economy being more like China’s).
I think that is an example of Hegelian dialectics, market capitalism and constitutional limited government was thesis, communism/socialism and authoritarianism was antithesis, and socialism and a hybrid nanny-police state will be the synthesis.
We only thought we won the Cold War.