This Court Case Could Unshackle Americans From Student Debt

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67. That's not out of the realm of possibilities. The growing activist middle class and large

number of college educated Americans who began making demands on business and govt. in the 1960s was enormous. No useless wars; civil and equal rights for blacks, women and gays; regulations on business, demands for clean air and water, safe automobiles, etc.

Consumer advocates like Rachel Carson who wrote "Silent Spring" in 1962 on the dangers of chemical pesticides and Ralph Nader's consumer protection work "Unsafe at Any Speed", the 1965 book that critiqued the safety record of the auto industry, were causing a major new awareness among Americans.

The establishment couldn't handle the threat to their bottom line and the social change, so they strategized to shrink the empowered large middle class and the number of kids going to college, in favor of returning to 'old order' conservatism where advanced education, security, power and privilege were only for the wealthy few. And so it's a real mess now-