Maybe I feel so strongly that in a sense these things have happened is because I come from such a highly classist society! Surely my tangental point that we are all subjected to a highly dominant and domineering middle class narrative can hardly be disputed? Also please explain the 10-14 year life expectancy gap, to me if its 14 seconds of a gap its incredibly serious! Oh let me answer this one from the dominant narrative - working class people dont take care of themselves!
S.W. I do not know how old you are, but I am a forty-two year old retired soldier. I am also a woman from a definitivly LOWER middle class background.
The United States claims not to be a class based society, but anyone who has been to a four year High School knows that THAT isn't so at all.
That said, as a Soldier and from that perspective I can and will tell you this.
No one on this earth is guarunteed so much as one second of life.
No one is ENTITLED to live, not even me. There are so many ways to die and the human machine is so fragile and easy to snuff out that we are not promised or guarunteed one single second more that ech one we happen to have.
I have intimate knowledge regarding both war and poverty, having tasted a bellyfull of both in my years and I can tell you, that both issues are far more complex than you are making them out to be.
You are trying to turn both issues into a case of "RIch=bad, Poor=good"
Life doesn't work that way.
If a solution or a postulate sounds simple and easy, then it is probably wrong.
You are trying to cast yourtself as the heroes in two stories you cfflearly like very much, I get that, I can even sympaties, but real life is not a story, and it doesn't work the way stories work.
YOu are demonising people for being different from you and or dissagreeing with you, and that is a fundamentally unintelligent move, dear sir.
I understand that you feel strongly about these issues, but that is no excuse for allowing your emotions to run away with the show and turn acivilisized disscusion into an ad hominim attack.
I was taught by my grandfather a retired Marine and a retired Teacher that If you cannot speak civily, then perhaps it is best if you do not speak.