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deepflows · 3108 days ago · link · · parent · post: White, middle-aged Americans are unique amongst the developed world: Their life expectancy is *DROPPING.*
Agreed. Also, self-destructive ways of coping with feelings of disenfranchisement, loss of faith in the promise of a better personal future, being trapped in various kinds of loan schemes and plain old dissonance between individual perceptions/cognition and reality as manufactured medially.
Drylandfish · 3107 days ago · link ·
Yep. Don't have much to add, but I see a real decline in optimism about the future. Even here in economically blasted Appalachia where you might figure folks are used to this sort of thing. Political ads are more rabid than ever to resonate with that sort of dissatisfaction. "Who can be blamed? Immigrants, minorities, slackers, socialists?"