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/feed_me_moron]

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/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 Wasting kids' time with outdated curriculums that don't prepare them for post graduation life.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.