Decent argument against Sanders tuition free college plan here

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97. I guess it depends on where we are in life.

I could easily write off people's concerns as irrational anger, I guess. I make a modest but secure living at a job I enjoy. I have a house, also modest but affordable. I got vested in my state's pension plan a few years before our reptilian fascist of a governor forced new hires into 401ks. I'll never be rich, but all in all, I have little reason to complain.

But when I think of my students and the world they are headed into, things look different. They live in a nation where family incomes have been stagnant for over forty years. Decent jobs are harder to find and housing costs so much that even a modest apartment is more than most of them can manage. So many graduate and then move right back in with their parents. It's the new normal.

The smart, high-achiever types are majoring in STEM fields, just as they're told to do, but what are we doing to STEM workers in America? Shipping their jobs out of the country or forcing them to train their indentured servant replacements. Very few want to be teachers anymore, because they hated their own time under the test 'n punish regime. (Because of that same way of "teaching," many are intellectually handicapped and hate learning anyway.)

I could go on, but you get the picture. Things are hard enough for young people in this country that I don't think incrementalism will do the job. (And in practice incrementalism usually means "keep doing what we're doing but somewhat more slowly.&quot

I don't think the Clintons --or many other national political figures -- have that sense of urgency. The system has worked for them, so they figure the system works. I don't think they're hateful, awful people or anything like that--just isolated from the world most people live in. Wealth and power do that to even the best people.

Nice chatting with you!