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.
America has always been this way. FDR briefly made things bearable. The rich, however, took affront to that, and fought really hard since then to make things fucked again. 2025 they finally won.