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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)to galvanize HER base, which was the parents and professors of Bernie's Kids who knew how economics work. Yes, he did have the idea of free college for all, but had you been paying attention in the debate, you'd have understood that she thought if people had the means, they should be contributing to tuition. Because it's horrendously expensive to make ALL college FREE for EVERYONE.
Bernie saw reason there, and took what he and Hillary worked and refined it a bit with the rest of the Democratic colleagues and produced this bill.
Even if they won't be able to do much with it with the GOP being their oh-so-coopertive selves, we've achieved a realistic framework for future ways to attack this problem. That's kind of how incrementalism works, and we've got dedicated and energized and STRONG democrats, LOTS of them who will be working on this.
Our Democratic senators and reps are indeed liberal and progressive and if we can resist the divisive nonsense from external forces that seek to sow discord, we're on our way to achieving actual progress. Let's not let the troublemakers destroy our coalition. We know they've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to create problems against us, but we see them for what they are and we don't need to let them affect us.
Let the Albanians, Macedonians et al. dedicate their efforts to delivering fiction to the Trumpkins, Liberals/progressives/Democrats are too smart to fall for that. 68 million folks proved that