Electing Hillary will mean continued neo-fascist corporate hegemony and will only be delaying the inevitable, but only slightly.
![]() Electing Hillary will mean continued neo-fascist corporate hegemony and will only be delaying the inevitable, but only slightly. |
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![]() . . and you're willing to risk a bloody revolution to get there. |
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![]() Edit: Forgot the wink. |
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![]() Business Insider has a graph I've pointed to before: ![]() Notice anything about the Black Male and Female lines and what happened during the Reagan/Bush vs Carter and Clinton administrations? Your privilege is showing, again. Cheers, Scott. |
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![]() -- Drew |
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![]() The trend was up under Democratic administrations and flat under Reagan/Bush. Reagan/Bush policies had a significant, measurable negative impact on the life expectancy of AAs. HTH. Cheers, Scott. |
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![]() According to the source data, both Aids and homicide had significant impact on black male life expectancy. Both of those could change abruptly with policy shifts. -- Drew |
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![]() It takes time to get people confirmed, for new policies to get drawn up, advertised, take effect, and for the rest of the government to act on them. Other than moratoriums and the like, it's hard for me to see policy changing in less than 3-6 months under normal circumstances on changing administrations from one party to another. But you're right that the general point stands - who controls the White House has life-and-death implications for the AA community (and others). The Congress and the Courts matter too, of course. It's not, "well they're all corrupt anyway, so it doesn't matter". It does matter. A lot. Cheers, Scott. |
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![]() -- Drew |
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![]() Percent increase in life expectancy per year.
Aside from the fact that Ford presided over an exceptionally good period for both races, the thing that really sticks out is that white males generally make about the same gains year over year, but the gains of black males are highly correlated with what party holds the white house. Who holds the House and Senate, and how much life expectancy lags any policy changes, are obviously relevant. But as a first cut, you'd have to be willfully blind not to see it. So what are you seeing from 88 - 92? -- Drew |
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