Thomas Hartman today

[sillywabbit]

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/want-to-die-young-bathe-yourself-b99?r=6pqjf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Want to die young? Immerse yourself in conservative media and vote Republican. Seriously.

We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up; when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides go down.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. This is an excellent read. K&R

“Republicans, after all, lean heavily on hate and fear as primary motivators to get people to the polls: gays are coming for your kids, immigrants want to rape or kill your wife, Black people are stealing your job, and Democrats love to kill babies the minute they’re born.

When people are marinated in such rhetoric, it’s almost impossible not to end up drenched in fear, anger, and hate — the necessary precursors to violence and self-harm.

On the other hand, President Biden’s soothing “we’re all in this together” and “I’m the president for all Americans” appears to have collectively brought most of us back to our senses.

And Democratic policies of reducing childhood poverty, strengthening schools and child-care systems, feeding people via food stamps and WIC, providing housing subsidies, expanding healthcare via Medicaid and Obamacare, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, and driving up salaries by encouraging unionization all make life in America less threatening and more comfortable.”