Has despair led to a stunning hike in mortality rates for some Americans?

[yuiyoshida]

[cantbeserious]

1. Thank You For Sharing

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[EEO]

2. It's the economy, stupid.

[Enthusiast]

9. Due almost entirely to the outsourcing trade deals.

[Thespian2]

3. the trickle-down theory is working

as intended...the rich are pissing on the poor...

[MasonDreams]

4. Thanks for posting this. This news hit me like a ton of bricks. I am these people.

My brother, also in this group, died last year @ 50.
Broke his back @ work, the pain pills ruined the rest of his life and then killed him.
I have two friends close to the grave one just "finished" radiation "therapy" for cancer.
His divorce and booze caused a deadly delay in diagnosis. My other High School friend, don't move just drugs.
Had back surgery. It has made his back so much worse it will soon be the cause of his demise.
Stress, Distress, and Despair, mentioned in the clip, unquestionably, has taken a couple of decades
off of mine, my sister's, and these three men's lives. If you are reading this, and you have difficulties.
You are not alone! reach out and share / for me Buddha's teachings, talk therapy, and read more psychology.
This is why I survived. Oh yea, a little DU & the Yes We Can days, helped Keep Hope Alive! And now I have Bernie!

[ErikJ]

5. Rural, white, mid-age, poorly educated are typical Republicans.

Who ironically vote against themselves.

[Enthusiast]

8. Democrats are going to take their guns away.

That's what they are taught anyway. And it works. A friend told me, "I am scared to death of the Democrats, they want to take our guns away." I was shocked that he believed this bullshit. I thought he was smarter than that. Propaganda is effective.

Millions of rural Americans have bought into the NRA propaganda. In every other way they are sympathetic to the Democratic positions.

If I was in charge of the Democratic Party I would completely drop the gun issue. If we want to win rural America, that is.

[Enthusiast]

7. And yet, President Obama is campaigning for the TPP.

I experienced this despair. It almost killed me. I'm from Ohio where outsourcing appears to have served as a national model.

If you are a politician and you vote for a trade deal (NAFTA) or even support a trade deal through lip service, I HATE YOUR FUCKING GUTS!

Hear me? You are killing us! We have no alternative jobs to go to! We cannot up and move when our homes are worth a fraction of what we owe and there are no buyers anyway. But politicians do not care, at all.

Stop treating us like we're the enemy! You unpatriotic SOBs!

Republican Governor John Kasich, Senator Rob Portman and other Ohio office holders support the TPP! Can you believe voters would vote for such greedy idiots? But the voters don't know there is even a new trade deal being promoted. And they will never even know Kasich and Portman voted for it until way after the fact.

[votesparks]

11. I HATE All NAFTA and TPP Supporters

I want them driven from my country.

They literally killed my city. Where once a population of almost 1/2 a million were, now there is 140,000ish.

Dayton will never forgive Third Way Dems and their policies that brought us so much sadness and tragedy.

I will never forget that Hillary Clinton lobbied for NAFTA. She might as well have ordered a carpet bombing attack on Dayton. Vile scum of the Earth.

[Enthusiast]

12. PLUS ONE, a huge bunch!

[MasonDreams]

10. Despair is Deadly.

It shuts down your brain, and then it's easier to manipulate them with FEAR.