Yves here. This article identifies a vector of US/Democratic party negligence that I have not heretofore seen discussed in the context of the Trump election. Let us first remember that the Covid vaccines, even with the issue of vaccine injuries, were a reasonable measure during wild type (and I suffered a vaccine injury that required a hospital procedure, so do not accuse me of being naive). That was before mutations made the vaccines increasingly an exercise in whack-a-mole and more and more vaccinations seemed to produce immune system fatigue in enough patients as to raise doubt about overall benefit.
Minority groups were the vanguard of essential workers and very often paid on an hourly basis. To be crass, those communities enabled the “much less minority” white collar employees to work from home, so as a group, they were much more exposed to Covid (recall that these exposed and infected essential workers would take the contagion back into their households). Many hesitated to take the vaccines because they would make even healthy people often unable to work for a day or two. People who go paycheck to paycheck cannot afford to lose their source of income.
On top of that, lower income cohorts, and blacks are disproportionately represented among them, generally have worse access to health care and hospitals in poor neighborhoods also provide lower level of care, for among other reasons insufficient staffing levels. Lower baseline levels of health care similarly results in lower levels of health population-wide.
By Max Jordan Nguemeni, M.D., M.S., an assistant professor of general internal medicine and health services research at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducts health policy research. He writes the Substack Column “Adverse Reaction” about culture, politics and health. He can be found online at X and Bluesky. Originally published at Undark
In January 2021, I was in my last year of medical school and applying for a residency. During one interview with a program, I asked a resident how the pandemic had affected his medical training, especially as a Black man. He began to cry. Every patient in his hospital’s ICU had Covid-19, and they were all Black. Soon after, I started residency at another hospital and witnessed firsthand the devastating toll Covid-19 had on Americans, predominantly Black and Hispanic communities. The pandemic dominated the news in 2020 and was a significant issue during and after that year’s U.S. presidential election.
This year, one election cycle later, news mentions of Covid-19 and the havoc it wreaked on people in the U.S. — especially on racial minorities — seemed rare. In post-mortem analyses of the Democrats’ presidential loss in mainstream media, little has been said about the pandemic’s impact. However, neglecting the topic of health care, especially health care inequality, during the campaign may have cost Democrats the White House. Doing so in future elections will continue to be a risky strategy, if not a losing one.
Between 2020 and 2023, nearly 1.3 million more Americans died than expected. These people were disproportionately Hispanic, Black, and Native American, with the overwhelming majority dying of Covid-19. A recent study found that among young people, Black Americans accounted for over 50 percent of excess deaths despite comprising less than 14 percent of the population. The past few years have been traumatic, and health care has been a top concern for voters. Yet many felt that health care didn’t receive enough attention in the campaign discourse. Polls showed increased support for Donald Trump among Black voters, especially Black men. Scant attention has been given to how much this shift might be due to health-related concerns and the lasting impacts of the pandemic and its associated health crises.
I trained in internal medicine and primary care during the pandemic. I treated Covid-19 patients in various settings and stages of illness, and I’ve been studying and writing about the opioid epidemic since 2016. I believe that many Black Americans who might have supported Kamala Harris in this election died prematurely — either from Covid-19 or opioid overdoses — which has weakened the Democratic electorate. While this might seem far-fetched, preventable deaths tied to systemic inequalities can indeed shape the electorate in consequential ways. A study found that of 2.7 million Black Americans who died prematurely due to inequality between 1970 and 2004, 1.7 million would have been of voting age past 2004, with most of them likely to have supported Democrats.
This election’s exit polls showing increased support for Trump among Black men may partly reflect a form of survivor bias. Black men, who were more vulnerable to Covid-19 and overdose deaths, were underrepresented in the voter pool. Indeed, while the media covered racial disparities in Covid-19 incidence and mortality widely, not as much coverage was given to the specific burden among Black men. For example, a colleague and I analyzed nine months’ worth of Michigan’s Covid-19 data to look at disparities in disease incidence and mortality. We found that the gaps between Black people and White people shrunk at roughly the same rate for men and women over time. Still, the gaps remained worse among men, underscoring Black men’s unique vulnerability.
Beyond Covid-19 deaths, we saw other conditions affected: Opioid overdose deaths among Black men surged dramatically. In 2020, the overdose death rate for Black Americans surpassed that of White Americans, with the rise concentrated almost entirely among older Black men over 55. The social conditions of the pandemic — including disruptions to health services, increased isolation, and economic devastation — likely exacerbated overdose deaths, adding yet another layer of mortality and loss to Black communities.
What’s more, the so-called unwinding of Medicaid effectively discouraged millions of those who survived the pandemic from voting. Medicaid, the largest public health insurer, covers more than 79 million low-income Americans, with racial minorities disproportionately represented. Perhaps surprisingly, research over multiple elections from 2008to 2014 has shown that Medicaid expansion can increase voter turnout, especially for men and in Democratic counties.
During the pandemic, the Democratic-led Congress mandated that Medicaid beneficiaries remain enrolled continuously. However, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 waived this requirement after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, even though the health crisis was still ongoing. The mandate for continuous enrollment had driven a surge in Medicaid participation. Since the unwinding began, experts estimate that some 8 to 24 million people risk losing coverage. Those losing coverage are disproportionately young and Black — voter demographics that could have made a crucial difference for Democrats in this year’s election.
A 2023 survey revealed that many Medicaid beneficiaries, especially those aged 18 to 29, had not renewed their coverage. In this age group, Harris saw a relative decrease in percentage of votes compared with the number Joe Biden received in 2020. The Medicaid unwinding resulted in a 17 percent relative decrease in enrollment nationwide between 2023 and 2024. This enrollment decrease was about the same or worse than the national average in critical swing states like Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Trump spent his first presidency trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in 2010, and included Medicaid expansion as one of its most significant accomplishments. In the 2016 presidential election, greater insurance coverage rates correlated with an increase in Democratic vote share compared with in 2008. This is likely because people who feel supported by government programs, and thus by those in charge, are more likely to participate in the electoral process. Alas, young voters, Black voters, and men — all groups disproportionately affected by the Medicaid unwinding or sensitive to improvements in insurance coverage — are the groups that had the most consequential relative decrease in voter turnout in 2024 compared with 2020, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
To be sure, the Biden-Harris administration has delivered some health care wins. Capping out-of-pocket insulin costs for seniors and empowering Medicare to negotiate medication prices are notable improvements. Voter turnout for seniors increased, with significant gains for Harris, who earned 49 percent of their vote, closing the 7-point advantageTrump had over Biden in 2020. However, younger, low-income voters — half of whom are on Medicaid — might not feel like beneficiaries of these wins. Harris missed an opportunity to amplify these victories as part of a larger vision to expand benefits, framing them as the foundation for a more inclusive health care system.
For example, she could have proposed lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50, a pragmatic step that would not have alienated centrist voters wary of Medicare for All. Such a proposal could have also been seen as a form of economic relief for those workers who don’t qualify for enough health insurance subsidies under the ACA and who spend disposable income on health care. A 2023 survey from the Commonwealth Fund found that nearly one-third of Americans with private insurance and two in five with Medicaid found it harder to pay for food and other household bills because of health care costs. By addressing these costs, Democrats could have simultaneously tackled a significant worry for many Americans during this election: the economy.
Health care inequality shapes U.S. society, placing Democrats at a structural disadvantage. The Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath have only intensified this effect. These past four years saw minority communities devastated by preventable deaths. This reality has altered the electorate in tangible ways. In 1966, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, according to Cleveland’s Call and Post, “Of all forms of discrimination and inequalities, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” This still resonates today. For future elections, Democrats must adopt a compelling vision for a healthier, more equitable America. By prioritizing health care reform, Democrats can rally an electorate deeply affected by health and economic crises. Health care should be at the forefront of their platform — if they want to win.
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Thanks for sharing this article. Nguemeni’s argument is compelling and there is a lot of solid data here (which is going into my SARS-CoV-2 file). Perhaps it is litotes on his part, but it doesn’t seem that “far-fetched” to say that preventable deaths have shaped the electorate “in consequential ways”.
I wonder, though, if it really precise to say that Democrats “neglected” health care inequality.
At face value, we can say, yes, this issue was neglected and it cost them — that part of the argument is persuasive. But might it be more correct to say they have actively denied that it is a problem, and it is more the attitude of denial that cost them?
Because the Democrats have been more or less aligned with the PMC on this matter, and their position seems fairly clear: in short, health care is “only for the worthy”, and to be qualified as “worthy” you must first tick a whole list of boxes, e.g., stating that you are absolutely anti-Trump, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-LGBTQIA+, and (especially the open-ended “+” part), etc. etc., and failure to tick all the boxes means you are in fact not only an unworthy deplorable, but in that you deserve to be denied health care and die a miserable death.
I am not a medical professional, but it seems to me that this might be closer to a possible explanation for why the Democrats were AWOL on health care inequality. A deeper analysis of that, however, is above my pay grade. I would be interested to hear what others think about this.
If Biden had an N95 mask he wouldn’t have gotten COVID and lost his mind just before the Trump deb8. Then no Harris switcheroo. He still might have lost but Harris was a train wreck.
Biden said he was not going to run for a second term, the Dems did nothing to prepare either their party of the nation for an alternative candidate, so he was forced to run again, despite his inability to walk up the aircraft steps four years ago.
Tired old racist with no new ideas was what the Dems wanted for their backing of the billionaires instead of the majority of Americans, US election coverage focuses on how much cash a candidate has, thus proving that elections are bought not won with ideas.
None of the above won every US election for decades
Yes, inadequate health care for lower-income Americans is probably one reason for the Dems defeat, but, in my view, it was the whole Harris package: the inability to communicate, the inappropriate laughter (repackaged as ‘joy,’) the reality that she was what The Donors wanted, topped off with the malodorous stink of Genocide-enabler. And, nobody was even talking about Policy. All of the above, arranged, sanctioned and approved by the DNC, who should be ashamed of themselves.
And, then I read this, in one of Adam Tooze’s latest Chartbooks:
Class, not race, is the new driving force of identity politics
Thirty years ago, Americans with a college degree accounted for roughly 20% of the population and held the same percentage of household wealth as those without a degree, according to the census and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Today, Americans with a college degree account for 38% of the population and 73% of household wealth. Those with a college degree live nearly nine years longer on average than those without, according to a 2023 study by Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton. The gap has tripled in one generation, from 2.5 years in 1992.
If you don’t have a college degree, you are less healthy, die sooner, eat fast food, drive beat up old pickup trucks, have missing teeth, and get government handouts. Oh, and you are more likely to be Black, Hispanic or Indigenous. In other words, a Deplorable.
This is what government policies are turning the US working class into: a underclass, an untermensch. Easy to revile and despise.
Is it government policies, or corporate decision-making? Seems to me it is many things, but globalization, trade and markets, capitalism at any cost, has facilitated the race to the bottom on steroids.
Could not agree more, jefemt.
And, I searched for Vivek Ramaswamy’s source of wealth, which turned out to be a company called Roivant, whose mission, according to Wikipedia is: Roivant advances its pipeline of therapeutics by creating nimble subsidiaries or “Vants” to develop and commercialize our medicines and technologies.
Wow, you can become a billionaire by creating a horde of nimble subsidiaries! Maybe he and Elon can do the same for the federal government! Who needs civil servants when one can have multiple ‘vants!’
And, poor Kennedy. Does he realize that no-one can become a billionaire by persuading the citizens to eat fresh fruits and veggies and eschew high-fructose corn syrup in order to improve their health and lengthen their lives?
Is there a difference between corporate policies and government policies?
I don’t think so.
That fifty percent of excess deaths were black people, when they make up only 14% of the population should cause us to look again at the Vitamin D deficiency hypothesis. In England, the average age or Covid related death for white doctors was in the 80s while for doctors of Indian/Pakistani descent it was in the 50s. (This was reported by Dr. Campbell). Advanced age and dark skin are two variables that make less likely to have sufficient Vitamin D.
Yep! And Vit. D is nowhere on the CDCs list of precautions and preventatives re. Covid. One can wash their hands to the bone, and still get Covid.
Yes this. A sane policy would have advocated getting outdoors into the sun. A saner policy would be to send VitD tablets to every household. D deficiency is very common, and leads to poor immunity to many respiratory illnesses, including Covid. Especially common among the dark skinned.
Of course never mentioned by the “health authorities” So called.
“I believe that many Black Americans who might have supported Kamala Harris in this election died prematurely — either from Covid-19 or opioid overdoses — which has weakened the Democratic electorate.”
Current US population is just shy of 350 million. While of course a smaller portion can vote you have to assume that not all of the minorities who died would have voted for Harris or voted at all. This is a strange assertion.
Here in SC we have have a large African American population of course and a neighbor told me that her doctor said the people who were dying tended to be overweight. So perhaps eating habits and the food problems talked about by RFKjr should be added into the search for answers. I don’t believe the MSM talked about this at all since politically incorrect and might be “fat shaming.”
And as I recall the “whack a mole” result of mass vaccination was talked about here before any vaccines were approved.
Of course I’m not qualified to talk about these issues but I do find the “narrative” on the epidemic to be in need of much revision given the conflicted motives of many of those making it. As for the above arguments about the politics, here’s guessing that the Biden-Harris vaccine mandates and poor handling of the crisis had far more to do with her loss.
all the migration post-(pick any random year) has drastically reduced Black political power.
even historically Black areas like Compton, CA are majority Hispanic now
Hispanics are the swing identity now. A quiet sea change.
Hispanics are the the majority-minority in California statewide at about ~40%. Caucasian’s are ~34%. Asians are ~15%. Blacks are ~6%
Over half the population speaks Spanish. Buenos dias, amigo.
There is a type of control group to consider, if only as a thought exercise. There were a lot people in DC and elsewhere reported to be exempt from Covid vaccines. Skip the saline recipients as reliable data are sparse, lol.
What happened to the exempt and their health outcomes?
Why were they exempted?
How many got any subsequent shots or boosters?
I never got the shot and also never got Covid. Control group of one.
One should say that the entire situation was a dilemma for both governments and citizens. Surely the best response by the former would be to make sure it never happens again and that includes finding out how it did happen. Instead any speculation of a lab origin–which might reflect very poorly on our government and Fauci–gets suppressed.
The political angle is why some said at the time that the Federal government should not be taking the lead in dealing with Covid.
I got six shots (Moderna) and AFAIK haven’t had covid either. But I also live alone in a townhome that’s well-ventilated year round, walk in the sun a lot (Hawaii), and mask when I go to the store etc. Too many variables to know which (any? all?) are crucial…
I haven’t been vaxxed and only mask up one day a year (halloween) and I haven’t had covid either.
If you don’t test regularly, you do not know. You may have had asymptomatic cases.
Historically, 90% of blacks who vote vote for Democrats.
Trump made big gains, with only 80% of blacks voting for Harris.
Many African Americans do not see Harris as Black. Most American Blacks grow up in segregated cities in poor neighborhoods with inadequate schooling and inconsistent/inadequate family income.
Ms. Harris grew up (pre-teen) in UC Berkeley adjacent Oakland with a well-educated mother with a solid income AND a cultural background very different from inner-city Blacks. Her home life and schooling was nothing that inner-city Blacks experience.
Hell, Harris cannot relate to the Caucasian proletariat let alone the Black experience. She was an awful selection by the political elite.
Worse: she actually grew up in Berkeley, the neighborhood known as ‘Poets’ Corner’ for all the English lettermen the streets were named after (down by San Pablo and University, not upscale or uphill but real Berkeley). Then she moved to the English, upscale side of Montreal for high school while Mom worked at McGill U. What intrigues me is she then went to the super Black U for college, Howard, which is a lot more than Saint Obama ever did. Could it be she was looking for (dare we say) authenticity? Too bad she never found it.
Yves, intriguing article and worth taking note of, thank you.
“On top of that, lower income cohorts, and blacks are disproportionately represented among them, generally have worse access to health care and hospitals in poor neighborhoods also provide lower level of care, for among other reasons insufficient staffing levels”.
Appreciate this, regardless of whether Dr Nguemeni’s thoughts on the matter prove to be valid. We were hard hit by Covid, many still mask up and it’s disconcerting to see how much denial exists. I also share your concerns (many of us here do) about the whack a mole aspects of vaccinations.
The Democrats just don’t care – they have made their bed with the rich and upper middle class. If you gave them a choice, the Democrats would rather lose with another Kamala Harris than actually deliver to the American people a second New Deal, universal healthcare, or end the wars.
There’s a clear case for universal healthcare as a result of the pandemic. There was well before the pandemic, with only the Green Party and Bernie Sanders (who was undermined by the Establishment as we know now with Wikileaks) putting a big emphasis on universal healthcare.
Instead we see the opposite – the Democrats doubling down on the donor class and moving further away from this critical platform. They won’t learn anything from 2024 any more than they learned from 2016, except maybe that they need to get a better snake oil candidate to sell their neoliberal platform (effectively another Obama, who undermined the “public option” and I feel deserves a lot more blame than he gets).
Another strong point that the US needs is stronger labor laws. There clearly needs to be more generous severance payments, some form of improved unemployment insurance, and labor laws need to be as strong as they are in Europe.
It’s clear to me that this is all because the rich want to get richer. The fact that the working class is economically vulnerable is their profit margin. Neoliberalism is a vehicle fro greed. We see this as well in the nations with universal healthcare, where there is a gradual backsliding to privatization, especially since the 2008 recession and the austerity that followed.
At the end of the day, our society has been destroyed so that the rich can get richer. The Democrats are in bed with this whole process, despite pretending to be the “good cop”. It looks like based on the 2024 results that fewer Americans are buying it. The upper middle class will remain with the Democrats because they are wealthy enough to have their own good quality insurance, but the rest of society, which is seeing rising discontent is clearly not buying this. As I’ve noted, the rise of Trump, as much as I disagree with much of what he stands for, represents a legitimacy crisis in the US ruling elite.
Most Americans seem to be ignorant of the universal healthcare systems that exist throughout the rest of the Western world. If they did, I suspect there would be a revolt. Even some middle income nations are experimenting with universal healthcare like China (it’s a mixed system though and there are fees for service). So the US is behind.
Well, we need a New Deal Party, or a Newer Deal Party, or something. And it needs to have a serious name so people will take it seriously. And people supporting it have to know that it will take several decades to conquer power, if it even can.
So people should prioritize building survivalism in the meantime.
I have to agree with your comments Carolinian, with regard to the mandates. The idea that an American President would mandate a so called vaccine. It was not. Or lose your job including our military and then use the mass media and social media to lie and censor those that pushed back was simply outrageous even for Biden. I would have impeached him for that alone. He refused to wear a mask, blaming the whole mask debacle on Trump hired the most worthless woman ever to front the CDC, killed over a million people and had Covid at least three times, further turning his almost nonexistent brain cells into pudding. Then would not go away. This is a guy who never made it in multiple runs for the Presidency polled very low numbers and dropped out early at least twice. Then the DNC foisted the worst Vice Presidential choice ever into a run against Trump. This woman was so dense she was not ever able to give interviews. Laughed hysterically at things that were not even slightly funny. They failed for a multitude of reasons, the least of which is the elitist billionaire the party supports. Working class people like myself see little advantage to voting. It’s all a class thing now and we ain’t in the class that matters. The whole she a black woman thing, had to be irritating to black voters and let’s face it this party has lied to these voters as well as Latin voters for so long that they probably see no advantage to voting for them either. As well as all the law suits, two assassination attempts, Russiagate and all the other lies told in a rehash of Hilary’s sad campaign. With the GOP also deserving of a swift kick to the nether regions, most people voted for Trump because who else was there to vote for!?!
What we ought onto do is stop voting all together. But we just can’t stop supporting democracy can we? Giving any of these clowns legitimacy by voting for or against them is just more lunacy.
When a party is so bad that a guy like Trump looks good is sad indeed.
I hate to be a stickler but just because you hate the Covid vaccine does not make it not a vaccine. It has a hell of a lot higher efficacy than the flu vaccine or to use a more reputable example, the dengue vaccine.
The reason mandating that vaccine was a big fail was it was not sterilizing. Worse, it was sold as such, witness for instance NYC restricting restaurant entry to only the vaccinated. The second is that immunity is comparatively short lived, only about 6-8 months (even before getting to the issue of new variants).
Honestly, I think we need more terms. We have vaccines that are reliable for ten years, we have vaccines that mitigate severity on a limited basis, we have vaccines that are given after a a virus to prevent later effects, and we have vaccine therapy used when you already have a cancer, but that wouldn’t have prevented it. As a simple patient, I cannot understand why these are all called vaccine.
There is a reason they are called flu “shots”
This. Personally, I have switched to “shots” for the mRNA type, and whenever somebody refers to them as the “Covid vaccine”, I reply “you mean the ‘shots’, not vaccine, right?” they get confused or smile, and the exchange usually ends right there.
In 2021, the term “vaccine” was redefined by CDC in a way that ensures many more immunity boosting substances will be included and exempt from liability claims.
July 27, 2021 CDC Definitions
Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
December 28, 2021 Definition:
Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
The summer 2021 Provincetown superspreader (over 300 with very recent mRNA shots got verified Covid cases (Delta – most likely not counted) demonstrated the mRNA shots did not meet the earlier definition of vaccine. Efficacies of 94-95% claimed in the initial safety/efficacy studies are obviously vastly overstated, even at their 2-3 month peak. No other “vaccine” performs remotely as poorly at producing lasting immunity as the mRNA Covid products.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211228003500/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm
The CDC cannot define what a vaccine is. The CDC’s role with vaccines is recommending the scheduling of vaccine administration.
https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/how-hhs-fda-and-cdc-can-influence-u-s-vaccine-policy/
That is done by the FDA in the “new drug application” process. If the substance was subject to clinical trials as a vaccine and was approved, it’s a vaccine. If not, not. The CDC cannot ex post facto override the new drug application process.
However, to your point, this may serve to deter some from considering suing manufacturers of substances that were not put through the NDA process as vaccines, as well as allow for later substances to seek an NDA as a vaccine.
Excellent point of view, the medical experimentation on Black Americans is part of their history and they have a right to be cautious. But the devastation goes deeper.
Before I begin my tirade, I’m sorry to learn of your mRNA shot injury. I know many, young and old, with sustained injuries even after medical treatment. Lifetime infirmities requiring medical intervention until their death. I personally know of 6 deaths of young people (under age 25) ‘dying suddenly’ with days of their mandated mRNA shots. All were healthy and not living risky lives (alcohol, drugs, etc).
My ‘issue’ with western medical care is that it is wrapped in the bow of deceit by calling it healthcare. It is a business. Pure and simple and their goal is to make me a victim-patient. Not gonna happen.
Back to my rant. Ordinary citizens and experts alike, and I’m not addressing politicians who are for the most part, whores for business, will not admit they enjoyed the power of the cruel tactics AFTER it was clear the real danger had past and young, healthy people were, for the most part, ‘safe’. No, they persisted. Fear and hate delivered on television (pandemic of the unvaccinated) had devasting effects on the culture and it will not be resolved for generations to come. The youth was sacrificed for the aged. The working poor sacrificed for the privileged. What a sick culture.
No investigation on the origins and the possibility of placing limits on biological experiments while tinkering with DNA and danger viruses, no one wants to have a conversation about this. Scientists sit comfortably knowing they aren’t breaking the law by shipping their dangerous work overseas to avoid prosecution. What hypocrites!
We must worship Science without question. Sounds fishy to me, but why use reason and logic when we are talking religion?
The shots were and remain, an experiment. They continue to be promoted as ‘safe and effective’. The public bought into the lies because of fear, hate and large dose of a distortion of risk. The moral accusation of being selfish because I refused to consent destroyed relationship that only with God’s help, will ever be repaired. I watched my fellow countrymen (and worse, fellow professing “Christians”) condemn and place more value on the elderly than the youth.
The lies continue, cancers are rampant, rare diseases flourish and people’s immune systems are wrecked (plenty of patients for the medical business as Pfizer builds massive ‘cancer curing’ campuses next to universities burdened with cash from the federal government).
I don’t think many understand the importance of being truthful and taking responsibility would be for the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of the people that live in the West. We would unite to tackle the serious problems caused by this serious moral harm.
Alas, their only concern is votes and the loss of power. Sigh.
I did not get mRNA. I got a J&J shot. I chose that precisely because it was an established technology.
I took one Pfizer shot and walked away after hearing about the heart issues on TV. Everything I heard about on NC made me avoid it like the plague ever since.
There’s one cousin in my family that’s a trauma surgeon. She and her partner got covid (one served in a Covid ward briefly) but both opted to avoid the vaccines until the state of California forced their hand.
At this point, after getting bed ridden by the flu, I recover. I smile, smell the flowers, and decide that there’s no way in hell I’m getting a flu shot next year.
It wasn’t just that though was it. Make a list of how Dems have screwed workers since Taft-Hartley. As soon as Roosevelt was dead Democrats abandoned workers in favor of rich people.
Then there’s the censorship. Turning the internet into a spy machine. Using a bought and paid for media for propaganda.
Taking people’s jobs for stating the now irrefutable truth that Israel is a monster. Banning them from social media. Using the justice system to persecute critics.
The wars. The war crimes. Democrats know the people they vote for are war criminals yet fool themselves into becoming a self righteous murder regime. A guy told me he voted for Biden because his town got upgraded sewage treatment. He knowingly traded that for genocide. Democrats trade for dead children. Deals made in Hell.
All these cultural machinations are all about dividing us and tricking us to side with devils. It’s the way criminals differentiate themselves. “X will take your guns”. “X will take your abortions”. While they both take your jobs, homes, freedoms and kids lives by the trainload.
I like many had a certain foresight into the future. Our worst precognitions have come true. A lot of people here know what’s going to happen but we don’t know how. That scares the crap out of me. Knowing it’s all downhill from here gives me no comfort either. All you have to know is history, current events and human nature and you too can experience the despair of watching the script play out.
The only way we’ll ever bring the miscreants to heal is if they fear us. The one thing they fear most is war crimes trials. Even Obama is worried. Those are actually possible. The next is pitchforks and guillotines.
Its frustrating watching leftists come up with excuse after excuse for why we are no longer voting Democrat reflexively as a whole when the answer is plain as day. Democrats used identity politics to get us to support Obama and he turned around and bailed out banks while Black people lost their homes, laughed in our faces when our water was contaminated and called us thugs for protesting police brutality. A LOT of Black Americans lost a lot of ground when Obama was in and we’ve only continued to lose it since. A lot of Black Americans learned a hard lesson with Obama regarding blackness and were not going to fall for the same shenanigans again especially when Kamala comes off as so painfully fake. Democrats have made it clear they simply dont respect us or our needs and just assume we will all vote blue because we dont have a choice but as Trump so eloquently put it we don’t really have much to lose when over 4 decades of reliably voting Democrat have gotten us nowhere. For the record I voted for Obama twice and havent voted for a presidental candidate since