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New data on the explosion of deaths of despair is shocking. Suicides at highest rate since ‘30s. Drug overdoses skyrocketing & alcohol-related deaths as well. Almost every person I talked to in my travels in rural Missouri this August had lost someone to suicide or drug overdose 
From report: “Suicides have not been so common since 1938, and one has to go back to 1910s to find mortality from alcohol-related deaths as high as today’s.” But biggest driver of this crisis? “[A]n unprecedented epidemic of drug overdoses” jec.senate.gov/public/index.c…
Life expectancy is actually DECLINING for large portions of the population and whole communities are in crisis. But what are the Democrats talking about? Taking away plastic straws and stopping us from eating burgers. What world are they living in? foxnews.com/politics/butti…
These days privileged rich liberals don’t just seem to live in another country, it’s a whole other reality
