death rates of white middle class American males

[Skabungus]

Here in the flyover states, middle aged white people gather at Sarah's diner for breakfast.  Sausage, bacon, eggs, pancakes, coffee, corned beef hash and cigarettes (which they have to smoke out back).  They gather in droves.  They gather at lunch as well for hamburgers and fries, fried fish sandwiches, and pie. For dinner it is the same.  Go to a church function and taco pie, cheesed everything, greasy everything and cigarettes out back.  They talk of TV programs and bingo, card games and beer.  They spend their "off time" in a sedentary practice of some kind.  They are dying and they know it.  They even joke about it between bites, between cigarettes and make jokes about the big pharma commercials on the big screen TV.

They are dying because the world has changed and they don't fit any longer.  They know it too. They don't work anymore because they are retired, laid off or underemployed.  The ones that do work are stressed because they aren't making enough money and don't see a point in the future where they ever will.  They're pissed that Obamacare cost so much so in protest they want to bring it down to be replaced with................pie in the sky?

They want the world to change back to what it was before, where a high school graduate could make $70k.  That's why they voted for the Orange Menace. They want there 'merika back damnit!

Natural selection is a bitch.  Their America isn't coming back, ever, and deep inside they know it.  The stress, the sense of despair, the lack of options keeps them firmly embedded in the only thing they know.  If they give that up then they have nothing. They are being culled from the herd by the passage of time, aided on by poor living habits and a refusal to adapt.