Coastal "Elite" Meets America's Farmers at the Iowa State Fair | Ben Meets America
August 17, 2023
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as posted by the channelBen Kawaller spent this past weekend in the patient, often edifying company of Iowan farmers. And also a few hard-hitting minutes with some presidential candidates— Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson. Iowa also offered Ben, a Brooklyn-born Democrat, the chance to interact with one of the most exotic species of all: the Republican voter.
Ten years ago, Ben says, he’d have thought nothing of writing off half the country as ignorant, or stupid, or deplorable—and he may have been happy to treat them as such. But these days, when he thinks of the divide between red and blue, rural and urban, he feels more curiosity than disdain.
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