The real reason Blue Collar White Demographic Suffering High Mortality
The data is disturbing. Nearly half a million middle-aged whites without a college education have died prematurely since a study began tracking such data in 1999. This is according to a recent article published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
But take a moment and look at the voting behavior of a large segment of this demographic . They believe that their success in life will come from following such political misfits as Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson and Ted Cruz. The policy prescriptions, if you can call them that, of these GOP presidential candidates are to trash the nation's first managed care system providing health insurance to people like themselves, and focus their energies on supporting the political and financial interests of their billionaire donors.
What ails this demographic is a lack of self-awareness bordering on the suicidal. Maybe these distressing statistics will be seen as a wake-up-call to recognize and begin using the political arena to articulate and rally around their actual interests rather than follow presidential candidates whose only political prescriptions are to shut down the government, dismantle Obamacare, or hold yet another hearing on Benghazi.
But take a moment and look at the voting behavior of a large segment of this demographic . They believe that their success in life will come from following such political misfits as Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson and Ted Cruz. The policy prescriptions, if you can call them that, of these GOP presidential candidates are to trash the nation's first managed care system providing health insurance to people like themselves, and focus their energies on supporting the political and financial interests of their billionaire donors.
What ails this demographic is a lack of self-awareness bordering on the suicidal. Maybe these distressing statistics will be seen as a wake-up-call to recognize and begin using the political arena to articulate and rally around their actual interests rather than follow presidential candidates whose only political prescriptions are to shut down the government, dismantle Obamacare, or hold yet another hearing on Benghazi.
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