america’s sons go to war, politicians’ sons go to college
Every time this country sends troops abroad, it’s not the sons of senators or congressmen boarding those planes.
It’s the boys from Ohio steel towns, the kids from Texas farms, the young men who grew up fixing cars in their dad’s garage. They wear the uniform, they fight, and too often, they don’t come home.
Meanwhile, the sons of Washington elites sit in classrooms at Yale or Harvard. They’ll graduate into think tanks, hedge funds, or government jobs their last names already secured.
We call it “patriotism.” But let’s be real—patriotism has always been a bill handed to the working class, paid in blood, while the rich cash in the dividends of “freedom.”
So here’s the question no one in power dares to ask out loud:
if every senator’s son had to fight on the frontlines, how many wars would america actually fight?
#Politics #MiddleClass #Military
