Want to die young?

Bathe yourself in right-wing media and vote Republican.

Want to die young?

Immerse yourself in conservative media and vote Republican.

Seriously, we should have known known but still the science is shocking

when conservatives run governments suicides and homicides go up when liberals

run governments suicide andicides go down.

We got the first clue back in 2002

when in a 100-year longitudinal study published that year

in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,

Australian researchers found that the suicide rate in that country and the UK increased

throughout the 20th century whenever a conservative government, similar to the Republicans

here in the US, was in in power and declined measurably when the

liberal labor party was in charge. The BBC cited the research noting that tens of

thousands of Australians and Brits would not have committed suicide

if conservatives had never run either government during the 20th century.

Their headline was unambiguous, quote, more suicides under

conservative rule. Quote, when the conservatives ruled both state and federal

governments that BBC summarized, men were 17% more likely to commit suicide than when labor

was in power. Women were 40% more likely to kill themselves.

Referencing the researcher's work, the BBC concluded quote

overall they say the figures suggest that 35,000 people would not have died

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