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The best way to understand the Amish is watch a few videos by Peter Santenello.
There are sub-sects that are extremist and live in deep poverty and ignorance. Some are successful farmers that use technology. Some are scam artists who take clamshell fruits and vegetables from a grocery store and resell them to simps in paper bags at farmers markets.
People who leave do not have good things to say, like Naomi Swartzentruber.
My issue with Mennonites near my hospital is that our genetic testing on this community reveals a lot of consanguinity, and genetic disease from inbreeding.