Today's Absolute Must Read for Every American

 This story in the Washington Post today, which unfortunately may be behind a paywall for many people.  It lays out in the starkest terms exactly what is at stake when voters choose between the two parties.  Here is a tiny sample of what it has to say:

"HOW RED-STATE POLITICS ARE SHAVING YEARS OFF AMERICAN LIVES

Today, people in the South and Midwest, regions largely controlled by Republican state legislators, have increasingly higher chances of dying prematurely compared with those in the more Democratic Northeast and West, according to The Post’s analysis of death rates."

It is a long and detailed article. What it reveals is that it is hardly an exaggeration or a figurative comment to say that the Republican party is a death cult- their base, driven to support them through manipulation of their hatred and rage, is literally giving away years of their lives, in order to advance the interests of a couple thousand sociopathic billionaires.  And again, it is not a figurative claim to state that these people, who are sacrificing years of the lives of tens of millions of Americans in order to increase their own wealth and power, are truly sociopathic- they are literal psycho killers.  We are faced with a party of greed maddened leaders and vast numbers of fools who are willingly killing themselves to support these hideous monsters.  

The only silver lining in this very black cloud is the fact that Republicans are killing off their own base, so if this continues for a few decades, they will presumably disappear from the earth, like the Whigs and the Know Nothings before them.  Unfortunately, they may succeed in taking a large number of us down with them, so I suppose we do not have the luxury of waiting for this very unnatural selection to do its work. I don't even know how we get these brainwashed people to realize that they are killing themselves to protect criminals like Trump, even in the face of clear evidence like this, let alone to get them to take the appropriate action- the easy step to vote for a flawed party that is nevertheless still committed to the best interests of ordinary Americans, rather than a criminal conspiracy that is destroying its own followers.