It is unbelievably hard for the MAGAs of the world - racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, fascist
- to live.
The popular narrative that suggested white working-class people are at greater risk of dying from deaths of despair "was only made possible by the erasure of data describing Native American mortality," the researchers write.
Their plight is fraught with extreme difficulties, that the multi-cultural world c
an only imagine.
- One match on an online dating app told an administration official, "Thanks but no thanks. Just Googled you and it said you were a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Go f--- yourself."
For MAGAs must live with their own self-inflicted despair.
They fear that it threatens their way of life. As such, to them, most everything seems a threat, a disposition that encourages conspiratorial thinking. To examine this proposition among our respondents in the MAGA movement, we developed a number of questions designed to gauge predispositions to conspiratorial thinking (full question text is available on request): (1) Real Americans are losing [their] freedoms; (2) Our lives are controlled by secret plots; (3) The American way of life is disappearing; (4) Unknown actors make the big decisions; and (5) Forces are changing our society for the worse. On all save one, at least 90 percent of the MAGA movement agree with the sentiments described in these questions.
The researchers also drilled down further to examine deaths of despair-related causes among this midlife group. In 2013, Native Americans had a 75.9% higher midlife death rate than white Americans. In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, that gap expanded to 102.6%, meaning that Native American midlife mortality from deaths of despair-related causes was over twice the rate for white Americans.
I'm surprised they even get out of bed in the morning.
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Between 1999 and 2013, the final year of data used in the 2015 study, publicly available mortality records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that midlife mortality among white Americans increased 8.9%. During this period, mortality among midlife Native Americans increased 29.3%, or over three times greater than the observed increase among white Americans.
It is unbelievably hard for the MAGAs of the world - racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, fascist
- to live. They are not number one in deaths - though they crave that pity while they cry racism - and one day
they won’t be number one at all. It's unbelievably hard, as Tr*ump winning the popular vote - that is.
The statistics also imply that, as the white population ages and declines further, racial and ethnic diversity will be the hallmark demographic feature of America’s younger generations, including Gen Z and those that follow.