Everyone needs to see these charts which shows the difference in life expectancy, infant mortality and gun deaths between Blue states, where the legislature is controlled by Democrats and Red states where the legislature is controlled by Republicans. Blue state voters will know how lucky they are to live in a Blue state and Red states voters will understand that by electing Republicans to office, they will die at an earlier age, infants in their state will be less likely to reach their first birthday and they and their families are more likely to die from gun violence.
The chart shows that Life Expectancy is greater while infant mortality and gun deaths are lower in Blue States then Red States. This is due to the fact that when Democrats are in charge of the legislatures, legislation is enacted providing health care programs and reasonable gun safety laws. Life expectancy is lower while infant mortality and gun deaths are higher in Red states because Republicans enact inadequate health care programs if they enact them at all and pass gun laws that make access to guns easier.
The differences are significant. A longer life expectancy adds up to millions of years of additional life. For example, people live 2.5 years longer in California than if they lived in Texas. With 38 million people, Californians live a cumulative total of 95 million years longer than if they lived in Texas.
Although the figures are not as extraordinary for infant mortality and gun deaths, they are still significantly higher in Red states than in Blue states. It is a tragedy when an infant dies before their first birthday because of lack of adequate health care and a child or anyone dies because of the easily availability of guns but as the charts shows, that is far more likely to occur in a Red state then a Blue state.
Billionaires like Elon Musk move from California to Texas where people live 2.5 years less than they do in California and Jeff Bezos owner of Amazon and just about everything else, moves from Washington to Florida where they live 1.7 years less than they do in Washington. Health care is of no concern to them because with all their billions, they can go anywhere they want for health care for themselves and their family – even go back to California and Washington or anywhere else they want. This is true as well for all the other upper income people moving from Blue states to lower tax Red states. In Blue States, Musk, Bezos and other rich folks pay higher taxes to help provide health care for others – in Red States billionaires and mega corporations spend hundreds of millions of dollars electing Republican legislators who put money into their bank accounts instead of into health care for their citizens and their families.
Democrats need to get this information out to the voters in Red states. If I was a voter in a Red state, I would be upset to learn that my life span will be 2 to 5 years less because I am denied access to the health care programs available in blue states. If I was a parent, I would be upset to learn that an infant born in my Red state has a lower chance of making it to their first birthday than an infant born in a Blue state because Democratic legislators in Blue states enact infant health care programs and Red state Republicans do not. I would also be concerned that my family and myself are more likely to die from guns living in a Red state then if we lived in a Blue state because Republican legislators in my Red state enact laws making access to guns easier.
Democrats need to get the conversation focused on issues that will motivate voters to get out and vote for them – abortion is one for sure, but we need more and what can be more attention grabbing the how much longer will you be alive, will a baby reach its first birthday and the ever present concern over the proliferation of guns which is the number one cause of death in the U.S. for children and teens.
The sources for information on these charts is right there on the charts – the truth is out there and you can see it for yourself. The chart is on the internet at www.scientificfreethinkers.com/bluevsred. Send the weblink to your friends, your legislators, anyone who can get the word out that if you want to live longer, if you want to keep the infant mortality rate low and if you want to end the easy access to guns, then elect Democrats!