Why not blame Sanders instead of Clinton for the government he's been a part of for so long?

Better yet, why not stop blaming Democrats for all evil in the world and blame Republicans for a change.

Unless you're a Republican troll? Like so many other right wing trolls posting on DU these days.

unless you're a republican troll trying to get me in hot water by calling me a republican troll?

is that what you're doing??!! huh!!??? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO ME!!!???

but lately DU has shown that there's nothing that can't be blamed on her. she's history's greatest monster, apparently.

I'm strange like that.

People commit suicide when they've lost all hope of their lives improving, and more and more people are reaching that level of despair and hopelessness.

care of those they love. It is also why we see these horrible murder/suicide stories about a man who has killed his whole family and then himself.

When I was working in the social services office it was also well known that both spousal and child abuse rises during economic hard times.

I notice it is not the rich jumping off the roof anymore. They of course are doing just fine - they have all the money.

I'm poor and male, living in the south. I'd add my race but I'd only get called a troll if I did.
I'm 27 and autistic, couldn't find a job if I were made Emperor of America.
I DO NOT EXIST.
Not to the government, not to "progressives," and sure as fuck not to the radical religious right.
I'll very likely be dead before 30.
NO ONE CARES.

he has been there,his childhood sounded pretty shitty.Plus his dad's background,

I don't know if we'll ever get a FDR type president again.We only got the first one because the market crashed.

So many many people were hurting that he got to help the poor with his good works. Now,the govt. knows how

to stop a crash like that from happening again,by gigantic bail outs for the banks,corps,you know,the rich.

They will always be taken care of,the rest of us,not important.It is going to take something huuuuge to change things this time.

what job do you want?

why will you die in the next 3 years?

The war against pain medication (a twofold war with blissninnies in the medical profession who are fine with somebody else's agony as long as they are not addicted to naughty stuff on one side, and vulture insurers who refuse to pay for anything else that might be as effective as the dreaded opioids because they cost more) has massively escalated in the last decades such that anyone in real pain has trouble tolerating their life.

And on the psychological side the generation (mine BTW) starting to drive the biggest increases were the first where huge swathes of them grew up being told they could be anything if they put their minds to it, and that they were special little snowflakes every bit as wonderful in every way as the most gifted, talented and best among them. Small wonder then that many of my coevals grew up internalizing the idea that their lives would be unqualified successes and unable to cope when most were not. When nobody ever dare tell the child that they are mediocre, how can we expect the resulting adult to accept a life of mediocrity?

Suicide is a serious matter, and devolving the discussion to a primary fight completely trivializes the issue. Please take your fight to GD Primaries.

Thank you.

If there is no hope, suicide in an option. Give hope and suicide is usually off the table.

Bernie=hope
Hillary=no hope

If you are in the lower income or lesser people, you experience no hope quite frequently. This is why Bernie supporters are so vocal, we need hope.

Z

It's nowhere near as simplistic as you're making it out to be. The economic factors discussed in the article have deep roots in policies that go back decades. And a decision to take one's own life does not come down to which candidate is offering "hope." If that were the case, suicides would have disappeared after Obama was elected.

Please don't insult people with situational depression, or who are suicidal due to economic circumstances--or their families.

If you want to make a case for Sen. Sanders being better off for people's overall mental health, there is a forum for that.

And please don't assume anything about me from this post.

It turns out that change did not come, not for us lessers. I gained $15 in SSI, but lost $20 EBT under Obama, and everything else went up in price.

Hope is needed, even for those who suffer from clinical depression. Once they run out of hope that their lives won't get any better, they do give up. Thankfully, I haven't had clinical depression, but I have known those who have, and one who ended their life.

I have had serious depressions in my life, and I have considered suicide a number of times. I have managed to pull out of these depressions, not by myself, but by others who gave me hope that things can turn around.

I have no such hope that Hillary will do anything that will improve my life, or my son's life. There needs to be a full out war against climate change, and all she can think about is all out war against other countries. She has done absolutely nothing to help the poor people of Haiti, although The Clinton Foundation beat their chests on how great they are with helping after the storms. Take a good look at Haiti, and you'll see what the US will become.

Z

Where the hell did you get that from? This is a serious issue we talk about in GD from time to time.

Reducing the issue to "one candidate can fix this; one candidate can't" is insulting and trivializing to anyone who has been close to it. I don't subscribe to reductionistic models. Nor is either candidate going to fix economic problems that have been crafted over the course of decades. You may have noted several posts in this thread that mention the merits of one candidate over another. I say those posts belong in a different forum. I don't go that forum.

There's no need to talk down to me or 'splain what people talk about in GD. I've been here quite a number of years.

I hope that you never experience suicide in your family or circle of friends. If you have, I hope you find comfort and healing.

which blames this on HRC.

Can't wait until all of the right wing trolls can be banned.

doesn't help.

This is why the fraud of 2008 was such a horrible crime, it brought so many into poverty and homelessness. The CEOs never once thought or cared about the people that would end up losing it all. From golden lofty towers, the entire human race must look like ants.

Thanks for the thread, JEB.