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GaYellowDawg

(4,796 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 01:27 AM Jul 2024

Maybe this is how you could get a bunch of college students to the polls for us

Project 2025 proposes to eliminate the Department of Education.

FAFSA is a part of the DOE. Trump will get rid of FAFSA and they have no detailed plan to replace the mechanism for getting your financial aid. Administrators at your college are unlikely to be able to help you much because they'll have to try to adapt to a stripped-down system that will differ widely from state to state.

I'd love to point this out to someone higher up and get this huge publicity at the convention and galvanize college kids. I'll bet even the most vociferous college protestors would shut the fuck up and vote for Biden if they knew their financial aid would completely tank under a Trump regime, and that even the most disengaged students would register damn quickly.

Is there any chance at all that any politician who has any kind of pull would take a suggestion from someone without six figures attached to their name?

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Maybe this is how you could get a bunch of college students to the polls for us (Original Post) GaYellowDawg Jul 2024 OP
These are the things every democrat should be talking about tulipsandroses Jul 2024 #1
Can y'all keep bumping this? GaYellowDawg Jul 2024 #2
Bump GreenWave Jul 2024 #3

tulipsandroses

(6,024 posts)
1. These are the things every democrat should be talking about
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 01:53 AM
Jul 2024

You say that people are not excited. Get them excited about defeating the people that want to make their lives difficult.

GaYellowDawg

(4,796 posts)
2. Can y'all keep bumping this?
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 02:26 AM
Jul 2024

I think it's a very important point and could be one of our most important appeals to Gen Z.

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