US children are 80 percent more likely to die before adulthood than children in peer nations. Causes range from lax gun laws to privatized health care. What connects them is a corrosive culture of individualism that makes child safety parents’ private business.
This is just another inning of the great American past time of squeezing the middle class a game perfected by Reagan and started around Nixon. This is a country for the haves and got mines.
A people so stupid and uneducated they can’t figure out unregulated capitalism will just push the profits to the top and then leave the bottom rungs of the economic ladder to pay the costs. I mean we’re a country of immigrants with an administration arguing that 3rd or 4th generation immigrants are the only ones with true claims to the land.