The Hartmann Report DAILY TAKE: Want to Die Young? Bathe Yourself in Right-Wing Media & Vote Republican
Berry Craig
We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicidesand homicides go up; when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides go down...
By THOM HARTMANN
Want to die young? Immerse yourself in conservative media and vote Republican. Seriously.
We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up; when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides 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 Republicans here in the U.S.) was in power and declined measurably when the liberal Labour Party was in charge.