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“Ohio sticks out — for all the wrong reasons. Roughly 1 in 5 Ohioans will die before they turn 65, according to Montez’s analysis using the state’s 2019 death rates. The state, whose legislature has been increasingly dominated by Republicans, has plummeted nationally when it comes to life expectancy rates, moving from middle of the pack to the bottom fifth of states during the last 50 years, The Post found. Ohioans have a similar life expectancy to residents of Slovakia and Ecuador, relatively poor countries.”
Conservatism is a plague of ignorance and death. It always has been. That will never change. The only way to change any of this is to marginalize and minimize conservatism.
Getting rid of conservatism in our culture is a matter of public health and safety. If this only affected conservatives, this wouldn’t be a crisis. But conservative ignorance is killing normal people as well.