I guess I am being really overly snarky about it. But, the whole tone of the film I remember was sickening.
I still recall thinking… if Americans were like the cry baby, self pitying creeps in the film, we'd still be British colonial subjects. It made me sick as ALL self-pity does!
It's unwholesome and it is NOT constructive!
I don't think we need ANY MORE of the self-pitying, victimhood mentality in this country. It is bad enough as it is and we don't need to cultivate MORE of this.
My grandparents were forced from their homeland (where they had lived for generations) and came here to a completely NEW and different place. They knew NO ONE, they didn't speak English, they had absolutely NOTHING and were immediately and relentlessly subject to some of the most bourgeois xenophobia you ever saw!
But, the main thing they DIDN'T have and certainly DIDN’t MISS having was self-pity. That was strictly scorned and mocked!
Self pity aside, farmers in some areas adapted or moved.
My daddy used to tell me about farming in the lake beds during the 30s in some lakes in Minniesoda.
Somehow he managed to survive and get married, bought a 160 acre farm (for what seems a small amount today), dairied a herd of cattle and farm critters and raised a few kids too,, and then WW2 hit the fan..
it was dry thru out the whole gitgo