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I'm not making excuses for anyone. I am responding to your claim that we don't have social classes in the USA. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of people born poor will only rise up a couple of steps on the economic ladder and those born upper class and wealthy will remain upper class and wealthy. A few exceptions don't change that reality. Your parent's income is the best predictor of your future economic success. Fact. It is not class warfare to recognize that we have classes.
I said we don't have different classes. Different classes of citizens. Economic groups? Yes. But not classes of citizens. You can continue to make excuses and continue to say that poor people will stay poor. You are only preaching the same self fulfilling prophecy that the class warfare and race hatred industry preaches, which actually makes people think that they don't have a chance in this county. Again, I refuse to buy into that. I came from poverty, and have risen up. I came from poor white trash, but rose up. I have a friend that rose from poor black poverty and now owns a company that makes millions of dollars and employs hundreds of people. I refuse to buy into your doom and gloom narrative.