Lots of interesting statistics in the article, but this one stuck out to me:
Thanks largely to soaring gun suicides, the most rural counties experienced overall firearm death rates 25 percent higher than the most urban counties in recent decades.
This is the hellhole Red America wants for everyone, where too many people believe the only escape is death, and they are willing to accelerate that.
On the one hand there is a long and honourable tradition of fascists shooting themselves in the head and I am always happy to see it, but on the other hand I imagine a fair number of these are people who oppose the conservative hellscape they find themselves stuck in, and just can’t take it anymore
Absolutely. To make things worse, a lot of good people in rural counties have never been outside them and have no idea that life is not the same dystopian nightmare everywhere. In fact, they are being actively lied to about the state of the world outside.
Lots of interesting statistics in the article, but this one stuck out to me:
This is the hellhole Red America wants for everyone, where too many people believe the only escape is death, and they are willing to accelerate that.
On the one hand there is a long and honourable tradition of fascists shooting themselves in the head and I am always happy to see it, but on the other hand I imagine a fair number of these are people who oppose the conservative hellscape they find themselves stuck in, and just can’t take it anymore
Absolutely. To make things worse, a lot of good people in rural counties have never been outside them and have no idea that life is not the same dystopian nightmare everywhere. In fact, they are being actively lied to about the state of the world outside.