Stalin and the Communist Party had a message for rural Russia and Ukraine, and it was this: die.
The party helped them die, and with the aid of forced starvation, about ten million did so.
What followed was the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union, which resulted in about seventy years of continuous “drought,” which caused widespread hunger.
Except for the members of the inner party, who did great.
VileSack is down with that… he's just telling everyone that the left needs better lies to continue the ethnic cleansing. To be fair, the Iowa GOP and their shiny-pants Polk County brigade have been assiduously depopulating rural and small-town Iowa for short-term profits while the Democrats have been doing it for political purposes. VileSack's ignorance of agriculture may be legendary, but he and his spouse do know a thing or two about lobbying and being part of the Party apparatus (which made him the perfect Sec of Ag in an Obama administration, e.g., the Pigford "fix"). Given his accomplishments and abilities, rest assured that when he issues a statement like this, someone - occasionally it is his wife - has their hand up his ass in the role of ventriloquist.
Look for a "new crop" of agitprop to sucker the rednecks, because Tom has essentially announced that they are focus-grouping it.
Mr. niteowl77