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Originally Posted by nik-
You're an average blue collar or white collar worker. You make an average salary, explain to me how the Iraq and Afghan wars impact your day to day existence. Without using abstracts, using tangible impacts to the average person.
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How do you not consider the emotional impact of being part of a country at war as tangible? You don't need to personally go to Iraq or Afghanistan to feel distress, fear, concern over these things. To consider 'day-to-day' life as limited as going to work, getting a paycheque, buying groceries, etc. is extremely limited. Day to day life is our interactions, conversations, emotions, personal feelings. Something that I see on the news that happened to someone else probably has more impact on me than an incremental raise that goes into my bank account and which I won't think about until I retire or need to make a major purchase.
I'm not even American and the election has had more impact on my actual life than just about anything else in the last six months, given the amount that it comes up in conversation both at home and with others, the amount I read about it and the mental space it occupies. And I don't think I'm alone in that; my interactions with Americans suggests a preoccupation with the issues that I don't think you can abstract from their lives.