I'm and official Iowa farm boy. I was a junior in high school when our farm, like so many others in the Reagan 80's, went bankrupt. We lost everything except the house and the 7 acres on which it stands. Reagan was in his 4th year as president and Earl Butz was Secretary of Ag. It was their policies that devastated farmers back then (remember the Farm Aid concerts?) 

To this day, my father blames Carter and the "damn dems" He continues to vote straight R, votes for Steve King for congress and voted trump for pres. He and most rural farmers have been conditioned to believe the "left" is the enemy and any suggestion or idea from the left is dismissed out of hand. After he lost the farm, he worked for a unionized meat packer for 25 years. Of course he complained that the union was just stealing his money, even though he received better pay and benefits than his peers at non-union plants and he even got a pension. This is typical behavior...To be continued