It’s the “Death to Americans!” 0bama effect....
Off to the left on Washington state, the farthest left areas were big logging and fishing communities that the enviros killed off.
The small houses in the communities have been abandoned or in disrepair due to - wait for it - no jobs for the less educated white men that used to fill those positions.
Well...after decades of being told you should be guilty, you should pay repsrations, you should support the world’s losers, you are worthless and you stink, what do you expect?
I’m not so sure about this “Death by Despair.” But I am sure that a major factor is life style choices being made since the 60’s-70’s that were not even considered or maybe known about in generations past.
Among these people despair is a self-inflicted calamity, IMO
At increasing rates, these people are electing to get addicted to pain killers, heroin, and meth.
That’s all there is to it.
These are the folks (we) that voted for Trump in great numbers and with high hopes. Trump was their (our) last stand.
Now as Trump alienates this base by getting in bed with Paul Ryan and working with the Commies (Democrats) to screw them over more, look for suicides ans substance abuse in this group continue to rise.
They’re getting these opiates somewhere. Somebody is making money.
The early deaths are due to degeneration; i.e. the turning to drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels and snoring. One might add Panem & Circenses I see the freaks at sporting events painting their faces wearing weird costumes A people with the aforementioned “life” can no longer maintain the health and attitudes that allow them to govern lesser breeds.
No government panic over this. The government approves.
Why? Because middle class white people die with assets that the government can tax heavily.
One of the things not mentioned was this mortality rise in those whites with less than a college education started in areas closest to Mexico, according to their own maps in the original paper. Less-educated whites just can’t compete financially with illegals for jobs they’re suited for. This will lead them into drug and alcohol abuse, and suicide.
Somewhere obama is smiling.
The working white class built America. Now, we work to give freebies to leftist voters who think we owe them something.
Some handle the stress worse than others. When the shooting wars starts, I plan to be well loaded.
Let’s see: Americans have bought the lie about a consequence-free sexual lifestyle. Check. Americans have for the past 5 decades bought the lie that if it feels good, do it, so they’ve engaged in a lifestyle of drug and alcohol intake. Check. Americans have coveted their leisure time so they’ve adopted an ever-more sedentary lifestyle. Check. Processed foods/fast foods. High sugar intake. My wife is a nurse and is amazed at how many 40-somethings are obese, suffering from type-2 diabetes or HIV or Hep C or High blood pressure, etc.
What’s amazing is how many of us are still alive.
Of course the cure is more socialism and not taking the government boot of the neck of the working man.
still scratchin my head about some of this.
Based on the ages and years, it appears this is a post baby boomer as much as a college\no college issue ?
What’s different ?
save for later
This is proves to me that Drugs, Alcohol and over eating are dangerous to your health. Smoking added in makes for a short life. There are too many empty calories available these days.
Unfortunately, many whites have taken to the formerly exlcusively black ghetto culture of death....hip hop, rap, sex drugs, alcohol. The short lifespan is inherent.
[[Why Middle Class Whites Are Dying Faster ]]
It’s very simple- people are not working hard like they used to- everyone now feels entitled to other people’s money- and America has become fat and lazy- Instead of working the fields, working manual labor jobs, etc- they work desk jobs- sit around all day long- snakcing on junk food- get home- and ‘are exhausted’ sit on the couch, turn on TV- and eat junk food till bed time- Kids are growing up not going outside and playing from morning till dark anymore- nope- they now sit around the house watching TV then playing on the computer, or their cell phones, and whine and cry if their parents ask them to go outside and get some exercise-
They get no real sense of accomplishment- feel like losers- and are depressed because of their lazy circumstances, and because they aren’t outside getting fresh air and enjoying life- Their only sense of accomplishment comes by how many likes their online posts achieve-
The french used to live a long life even though they ate a lot of fatty foods, and loads of sweets, and smoked a lot because they would work hard till noon- have their large meal for hte day- then go back to hte fields or manual labor jobs and work off the lunch and then have a small meal in the evening- That however is all changing now as they still smoke, eat loads of sweets, and fatty foods, but don’t do the hard jobs they used ot do and now their big meals come at the end of the day instead of at lunch time- there are far more deaths by heart disease now, diabetes, strokes etc
Doesn’t take a bunch of studies to figure out what is going on
>>The historian Carol Anderson argued in an interview in Politico (2016) that for whites “if you’ve always been privileged, equality begins to look like oppression,”
Only with ongoing Affirmative Action, there isn’t equality, there is active discrimination against white males. You see anecdotal proof of this all the time here on FR.
There are plenty of other issues causing the mortality uptick, but this doesn’t help, is one more.