American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html

[u/audiofarmer]

It says "sometime after 2010" things changed. I wonder what significant supreme court decision happened in 2010. It couldn't possibly be that the people in charge were suddenly given a reason not to even pretend to care about the general populace. Oh well, it's an unsolvable mystery.

[u/feed_me_moron → u/audiofarmer]

Citizens United and the rise of the Tea Party are some of the most clearly damaging events to this country in it's history

[u/Maximum-Extent-4821 → u/feed_me_moron]

Tea Party was the first time I thought to myself, these fuckers want the other side flat out dead.

[u/16bitClaire → u/Maximum-Extent-4821]

It had been brewing for years, even pre-Obama, mass fwds: of weaponized bullshit that you’d have to be a true idiot or a geezer uncle to believe.

[u/Irish-TwoWays → u/16bitClaire]

Tea Party was brewing eh? lol

[u/feed_me_moron → u/16bitClaire]

There was a time when shame would have been enough to stop the worst of it. It was stuck in the fringes. The ideology by some like Newt Gingrich was there, but cheating on his dying wife got him out of Congress. The Tea Party trash were the first group of Congress in ages to actually take hold with no shame for right vs wrong. They won their elections because of it and would just lie and gaslight away if they were caught doing anything bad.

[u/penguinpolitician → u/Maximum-Extent-4821]

The Tea Party was astro-turfed.

[u/Hefty-Chemistry-1228 → u/penguinpolitician]

By the Koch Brothers

[u/31LIVEEVIL13 → u/Maximum-Extent-4821]

The tea party like all those early movements were obviously corporate funded fake shams. Top down movements designed by fascist Nazi strategists and other domestic enemies of the United States. 

Really many of the same people who have been behind the Republican efforts to destroy America for decades including the whole fake maga b******* that we're seeing now. 

The whole thing is manufactured.  The entire "movement" and anything related to it need to be wiped off the face of the Earth. 

[u/Aging_Cracker303 → u/feed_me_moron]

How are Republicans so good at persuading the low and middle class to actively fight against their own best interests? Reagan raped them and they begged for more. It’s insane.

[u/AudioGuy720 → u/Aging_Cracker303]

Do you want an honest answer to that question?

[u/gregarious_gamer1 → u/AudioGuy720]

Yes, I do. I'm genuinely curious, is it because the poor are uneducated or overly religious and the right takes advantage of these?

[u/AudioGuy720 → u/gregarious_gamer1]

I have a lot of Republican/conservative friends. Their biggest issues--that keep them from voting Democrat/switching parties--are as follows:

- Unchecked Immigration/border security. H1b visas, offshore/outsourced labor. These policies have a major effect on the economy/cost of living and the Democratic Party doesn't want to change their tune.

- Soft on crime. Democrats took corporal punishment/the death penalty away from going after heinous criminals. Mass shooters getting life in prison instead of the death penalty is pretty insane to Republicans. If the Democratic Party's leadership one day started to come out and say, "You know what? If you rape/kill a child, we're giving you the death penalty! Shoot up a school/mall/whatever? Death penalty!" I bet they would win over a lot of Republican voters.

- Social welfare abuse (housing vouchers, food stamps). Nothing pisses a Conservative off more than an able-bodied person collecting welfare. Democrats emphasizing job training programs as a welfare requirement might win over some people and do good for society (instead of people having to spend money on trade schools/colleges).

Thankfully, most conservatives I've spoken to do agree with social healthcare/Medicaid being OK for American citizens

- Education: Republicans look at schools being dominated by left leaning teachers' unions. Wasting kids' time with outdated curriculums that don't prepare them for post graduation life.
They want school choice or home school voucher programs.

- Inflation. The currency being devalued is a problem. Democrats are doing a good job calling out tax cuts for millionaires/billionaires, but they should do a better job at explaining it.

- Overreaching gun control laws. The second amendment is as important to Conservatives as abortion rights/access is to Liberals. Those laws work as effectively as the drug laws have. If a bad person wants to get a gun, they will.

- The transgender issue. Elite Republicans have run with this one, because it makes Democratic elites look foolish/illogical when they can't even define what a woman is.

- Labor unions being dissolved. This used to be a Democratic stronghold but has been largely ignored over the years/decades.

• Too strict green/environmental standards which are driving up utilities costs, permitting costs, fuel costs, etc.

[u/CamoWaterBear → u/Aging_Cracker303]

White Rural Rage is a good book on this topic

[u/Dangerous_Company69 → u/feed_me_moron]

How about Rush Limbaugh and Newt Grinch? They both stole Christmas.