China is buying billions in US farmland and lawmakers are scrambling to try to stop them

American Military News ^ | July 20, 2021 | Ryan Morgan

[gattaca]

That is a great question. Marxists don’t like facts.

[Arcadian Empire]

America’s farmlands must be owned by American citizens.

[Arcadian Empire]

Excellent plan.

[Sam Gamgee]

yeah, that’s an ongoing argument for me with people. I think we are less conservative NOW than 40 or 50 years ago. Usually its leftists that disagree.

[x]

There are cycles in these things. When Nixon was in charge, people who'd gone through the Great Depression and WWII weren't hostile to the idea of big government, and they didn't think the government was hostile to their values. Four years before Nixon won, Goldwater lost in a landslide. People still trusted politicians and bureaucrats. That changed in the 70s and 80s. The Reagan-Bush-Clinton years were a more conservative time. Now the pendulum has swung back around and the country is less conservative than it was 30 years ago.

Note also the change in what liberalism/progressivism and conservatism mean. In the fifties and most of the sixties, voters didn't think that the government would become actively hostile to their values and themselves. Today, to be progressive means to be hostile to Middle America, its lifestyle, and its values. So people in the 50s, 60s, and 70s could be "liberal" in accepting big government and a loosening of moral restraints (in what now may seem like small ways), and not be considered very "progressive" by today's standards.

[Sam Gamgee]

Good points. The Wilsonian period was also a period where progressives pushed the envelope. Ford decided he wanted to interfere in the private lives of his employees and progressives pushed for prohibition thinking they were our “betters”. Funny thing with Bush is I think many of us were snookered by him and it took time to realize the man was not a conservative. And of course conservatism is different than it was. Liberals are no longer against sweat shops as they approve what China is doing. Conservatives thankfully are coming around to the idea that Nixon’s deal with China was a bad thing.