Sanders gets best reception at early 2020 audition

[DemocracyMouse]

99. OK, I actually agree he's got good energy, but his policies?

I saw him once denigrate teachers in higher education for being paid too much. He singled out a small minority of star professors who are paid well into the six digits, without an apparent awareness that most college intructors have been marginalized into adjunct positions which pay non-living wages. And, sorry, most cannot sustain a second job and must cobble together multiple adjunct gigs to survive. The point is that Biden hadn't done his homework and I was extremely disappointed. If he had, he'd be blaming the rising cost of higher education on the shift towards a "business" model where students are treated like consumers (accounting for grade inflation, the dumbing down of classes, expensive increases in sports and country club amenities), and stakeholders like the upper administrations doubled and tripled their salaries and doubled the total number of administrators.

Now, to be fair, it might have been a "winging it" moment for Biden. I contacted a close associate of his in the Obama admin and Biden's team did diligently take in my analysis and sources.

Maybe he got the message and I'll gladly route for the man (if Warren doesn't break through the pack!)

I'd love to see ANY Democrat point out that turning any non-profit industry into a business (health insurance, prisons, education) leads to higher cost and de-humanized conditions. But they have to be smart and couple that position with a statement about the equal importance of empowering a people's entrepreneurial for-profit sector WITH a sound non-profit infrastructure. Democrats always emphasize the former over the latter and get accused of being "anti-business." (Yes they are rightly critical of big business, but the Republican fog machine obscures it).

Some day an angel will come along and say "a non-profit infrastructure by the people, for the people, will fuel a beautiful, highly creative, people's for-profit economy." Maybe Biden can strike that balance.