There are more of us than there are of them

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There are more of us than there are of them
The people dying from COVID were voters

By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Columnist
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 8:01AM (EDT)


(Salon) The 14th Amendment isn't going to save us from Donald Trump. Nor is a ruling in New York state that he defrauded multiple banks and insurance companies over a ten-year period. Nor are the 91 charges against him in his four criminal indictments. Nor is another ruling by a New York judge that he raped E. Jean Carroll and is liable for $5 million in civil damages. His base loves him for every scam he pulled, every norm he trashed, every law he broke.

There may be red state after red state across the South and Midwest voting for Trump every time he says "jump," but there aren't enough of them, and they don't have enough electoral votes. What will save us are our numbers. Republican presidential candidates have won the popular vote only once in the last 35 years, when George W. Bush beat John Kerry in 2004. In every other election, Democrats won the popular vote, even when they lost the election overall because of the electoral vote count. Put simply, there are more of us than there are of them.

What we're going through today, right at this moment, are the beginning rumblings of the ground beneath the feet of Republicans that will become an earthquake in 20 years, when demographers predict that White people in this country will reach minority status. For a long time, they said it was going to happen in 2050, now they say it will be 2045, but check this out: non-Hispanic White Americans under 18 are already a minority.

And it's happening from both directions.

There are more non-White babies being born at the same time that there are more White people dying. They're dying for all the reasons people do – heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, liver disease, diabetes, emphysema – and now they are also dying because of the political party they belong to. Nate Silver reported on his Silver Bulletin Substack on Friday that the death rate from COVID in red states is 35 percent higher than in blue states. A study from Yale University published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in July found that Republican-leaning counties in Ohio and Florida had excess death rates from COVID that were 43 percent higher than Democratic-leaning counties. Silver pointed out that the methodology behind the study was simple math: Researchers cross-checked voter registrations against death records, county by county, and added them up. After COVID vaccines became widely available early in 2021, "Republicans began having considerably higher excess death rates," as compared to Democrats, Silver reported. Note that the study was done by comparing people by party registration. The people dying from COVID were voters, and more Republican voters than Democratic voters died by a large margin. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/30/there-are-more-of-us-than-there-are-of-them/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. We got to GOTV

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[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Excellent article, worth reading the whole thing

It’s chock full of hope-inducing data.

This data also explains why so many are fighting tooth and nail to establish permanent minority rule - because they know they will soon be the permanent minority.

[qwlauren35]

3. This is extremely misleading.

Yes, there may be more minorities, but minority does not equal Democrat, and minority does not equal liberal.

Some minorities view the Republican Party as in line with their faith-based values. Some minorities view the Republican Party as in line with their values as entrepreneurs and small businessmen. (Men, yes.)

So, to say that the Democratic Party will win when white people are a minority is not even remotely true.

What is more likely is that the Republican Party will become SOMEWHAT less racist.

Which will make them more likely to appeal to some moderates.

[Dulcinea]

4. This is why I help GOTV.

I talk to people about voting & send LOTS of postcards. Voting may not be the only way out of this mess, but it's the best place to start.

"The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument in a democratic society. We must use it." --Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, 1940-2020, who spent his life fighting for voting rights