And he is now saying, I am going to acclimate the American public to the use of military force anywhere I deem it. Appropriate under any circumstances, and I may well, the president may be thinking, I may well have us in a war by the time the elections roll around, which will enable me to say any opposition to me and my party is basically treason and unpatriotic.


There’s always the option of antitrust as well. The government could, if it had a backbone, bust up corporate land aggregates. But very heartening to hear that take about New England, something I hadn’t considered. I know livestock are big out there so had assumed most land was either grazing or feed farming.
I would consider livestock less than half, maybe even a third of the farming effort up here. Vermont does the dairy thing but that’s about it. It’s generally very mixed, some livestock, but mostly agriculture.