"He is dusting off the old Republican playbook and bringing back the strategy known informally as 'Starve the Beast,'" said one advocate. "In this case, Social Security is the beast."
How about we cut subsidies on oil, and corn, heavily tax carbon output, and put heavy tariffs on virgin plastics.. Doing that would increase life expectancy, AND improve quality of life.
For some of them, they are. There's a whole thing in the Bible about how bad the world has to get (including a war in Israel) for the second coming to happen, and they're trying to force it.
A ton of evangelicals believe they are living in the end times and there's no reason to care about the future of the planet or nation anyway.
There's an actual word for what they are doing to us, I never see anyone use it, so I thought people should know it exists.
The following definition was copied from Wiktionary.
omnicide
noun
The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to human extinction through nuclear warfare, but it can also refer to such extinction through other means such as global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe and Lethargica.