You might not realise it, but you're proving my point to some extent.

We don't look at the deaths of our own people as "oppressive" despite the fact that the circumstances that caused them to die was our system.

I'm not some bleeding heart liberal or anti-capitalist... I just have an open mind to the idea that we're not necessarily the good guys just because we are us and I look at what is factually true - as in, how could we be described by a non-sympathetic entity.

Everyone is their own hero. Nobody believes sincerely that they're the baddie.

Chronic lower respiratory diseases account for 145k people a year in the US, and that is a consequence (largely) of car dependence...

Or, more directly, 20,000 people a year die due to malnutrition and starvation, tallied over years (as most do) that can rapidly rise to over 100k in a half-decade.

The UK has an excess mortality rate of 330,000 linked to healthcare cuts (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/over-330000...).

I get that the numbers were talking about are much higher, but it doesn't follow logically to me that ordinary citizens knew that their government was the "bad" one with its actions.

Hell, I know Russian families who genuinely believe Putin is doing the right thing right now. So, I don't blindly accept that my government is right just because I think "we're the goodies".