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A View from Missouri that Explains what is Really Going On [1]
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Date: 2025-03-06
I was led to this story via Heather Cox Richardson’s substack post of March 5. Prof. Richardson provides an excellent summary of the MAGA movement’s adoption of Putin’s “political technology” and its sustained campaign of disinformation and chaos. Even more enlightening is her focus on the ultimate goals of the attack on our governmental systems. Here, she points to the work of Jess Piper in her substack The View From Rural Missouri.
Ms. Piper explains the goals of MAGA, Project 2025, and the ascendent oligarchy as it has affected rural America based on her experience living through what could be termed the “pilot program” in her home state of Missouri.
I live under a GOP Supermajority. I have lived under their boot for two decades. They have economically damaged my state and it wasn’t by accident. They did it to sell off the state and workers and land to the wealthy. They created a desperate situation in Missouri and that desperation equates to bounty for the oligarchs. The new Gilded Age. Make America desperate again.
She describes the destruction of family farms to make way for factory farms owned by wealthy corporations, and the destruction of rural schools to drive communities to desperate extinction.
Why in the world would anyone want to destroy rural America either by creating conditions to hurt small farmers or close rural schools? Because they want to sell off rural parts to the highest bidder. Because if they can drive people out of rural spaces, or make them so desperate that they’ll accept any job at any pay rate, they can bring in large corporate farms and there is no one to protest the environmental impacts or force them to pay their fair share in taxes.
As both Ms. Piper and Prof. Richardson explain, the plan is to expand the tactics to the entire country — to collapse the government and economic systems so that the oligarchs can distribute the pieces among themselves, as was done in Russia.
They have installed the wealthiest man in the world to dismantle the country for himself and his fellow oligarchs. They plan to burn the country down to pay rock-bottom prices for the ashes.
While many of us probably understood this, it is helpful to have it laid out so clearly, with concrete examples from here at home. Ms. Piper concludes her post with the advice that public action, not letter writing, is the way to try to slow their progress. Call, protest, testify, show them we see what they are doing, and resist.
Read her entire post here:
jesspiper.substack.com/…
And Prof. Richardson:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/...
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