skews13
Diamond Member
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2017
- Messages
- 7,848
- Reaction score
- 8,632
- Points
- 2,265
A story in this month’s Scientific Americanpoints out that Americans are dying younger and at a greater rate than citizens of other industrially advanced countries. The reason for this is not complex, it’s easy to say exactly why:
Pro life.
Conservative ideology is causing more Americans to die.
The story points out that life expectancy in America is lower now than it has been in any year since 1996. That means that the advances in medical science and social behavior that have led to an almost continual rise in life expectancy for a century and a half stopped in America in the last few years and, in fact, we have gone backwards.In fact, the only reason American life expectancy has dropped significantly in any years since before the Civil War, when these things began be be tracked systematically, has been due to the Civil War and the First World War combined with the Spanish Flu of 1918-20.Over the past 160 years, life expectancy (from birth) in the United States has risen from 39.4 years in 1860, to 78.9 years in 2020. One of the major reasons for the overall increase of life expectancy in the last two centuries is the fact that the infant and child mortality rates have decreased by so much during this time. Medical advancements, fewer wars and improved living standards also mean that people are living longer than they did in previous centuries. (Statista)
Modern American conservatism is having the same effect on American lives and life spans as war and disease has had in the past.
Conservatism is literally killing Americans. And it’s doing it in three easily understood ways:Pro life.