That develops your earlier point about the lack of compassion and empathy in modern political discourse. Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird were forcibly removed from the curriculum by a Tory Minister of Education in England (Michael Gove) because they were "irrelevant" to the lives of English youth. I guess compassion for the poor has no place in the social narrative of a Conservative government that considers the poor to be feckless scroungers. Similarly, the struggles of single-parenthood, overcoming racism, and fighting for justice have little attraction for a government that labels human rights lawyers as obstructive lefties.
That develops your earlier point about the lack of compassion and empathy in modern political discourse. Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird were forcibly removed from the curriculum by a Tory Minister of Education in England (Michael Gove) because they were "irrelevant" to the lives of English youth. I guess compassion for the poor has no place in the social narrative of a Conservative government that considers the poor to be feckless scroungers. Similarly, the struggles of single-parenthood, overcoming racism, and fighting for justice have little attraction for a government that labels human rights lawyers as obstructive lefties.
Re: the rich - "They don't pay taxes." Please explain.