The latest revelation was on page 349 – where it is revealed that the great ‘progressive era’ (early 1900s) was actually a conservative movement, wherein conservative business self-interests were moved to pass reforms that they wrote instead of allowing the growth of socialism and general labor rebellion to occur.

Ironically this conservative movement created the BIG government intrusion that now conservatives claim they do not need. It seems conservatives have not read their own history to realize why they created these reforms to begin with.

And of course all the other label-makers have forgotten their history too and refuse to recall where the labels they ignorantly toss about today truly came from…most of their kin were probably socialists–populist farmer co-ops and worker wobblies–and darn proud of the reforms their movements created. These ancestors probably would be ashamed to see their fat and crabby labelmaking grandkids lazing about on their PCs all day railing about socialists–where would these kids be today without their grandparents having been socialists?

Today’s farmers represent just a small fraction of the people who grew up on farms. Most of us left. My dad’s farm provides my youngest brother with a decent income (thanks to his foresight in marrying a school teacher and then deciding to sell seed on the side), but my brother could never afford to buy a farm. If you don’t inherit land, it’s almost impossible to become a farmer unless you sharecrop, which is a pretty hard way to make a living.