Dying of Whiteness podcast: "Because Tennessee didn't do the [Medicaid] expansion..."

[Yavin4]

"... that cost every white citizen in the state two to three weeks of life, just because of this ideology. And it's ironic that the people I interviewed for the book, who were the staunchest supporters of blocking Obamacare and telling me about the “witch doctor Obamacare,” all these kind of things, those were the same people who were giving away three weeks of their life in support of these politics, and voting for people who did so." -- JONATHAN METZL

Now, when you see a society that starts having life expectancy go down, something is happening. Something's up. That's a distress signal from that society. An example of a place where life expectancy started to go down was Russia right after the fall of the Soviet Union. This sort of collapse period in which all sorts of societal institutions were coming apart. And you saw a big spike in all kinds of deaths, things like suicide and alcoholism, things like that.

In the U.S., the last time that life expectancy went down three years in a row was 1915 to 1918. And what was happening then were two things, World War I and the global flu pandemic that killed 50 million people, including 650,000 Americans.

Link to a transcript and podcast: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/dying-whiteness-jonathan-metzl-podcast-transcript-ncna987671

[cilla4progress]

1. KARMA...

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[Solly Mack]

2. Racists lamenting the death of their "superior race" as they slit their own throats.

[snort]

3. Bless their little hearts...

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Stoopid Kills.

Acting stupid still kills. This is the same sort of stupid that sent tens of thousands of Tennesseans to their deaths in the War Between The States and still kills today. Making opposition to the ACA as a part of white identity politics is stupid. They’d have done better to take up fiddle-playing, square-dancing or crafts.