This.. "Why Democrats didn’t feel the Bern"

[Colorado Rambler]

108. I am surprised by the number of negative responses to gmole's post

I seldom post here myself, but I am much in agreement with gmole. My generation (I'm 64) was able to get a good education at a state supported school that charged in state tuition. I worked part time, got a couple of scholarships and had the good fortune of having a father who could afford to chip in with my education bills. I can't imagine what it must be like for today's young people, just starting out and already saddled with a huge debt from college loans. There is no excuse for this situation. My family is originally from Appalachia - we were Kentucky hillbillies - but my grandparents decided that their children (including my Dad) deserved a better shot at life than working the coal mines. They moved down to Bluegrass Country, bought a small farm and off the procedes of a small family farm, they were able to put every last one of their 6 children through the University of Kentucky at the height of the Depression. How did they pull this off? UK had free tuition for in state residents during that time in our country's history. Now if a poverty ridden state like Kentucky pulled this off, there's no reason why state schools today couldn't do something similar. Yep, taxes would have to go up. The Republicans would scream like bloody murder, but what's new? This country needs to start investing in its most precious resource - the American people - especially its YOUNG people.

I don't support Bernie over Hillary because I'm some battle scarred old war horse, disappointed at my own lack of carpe diem. I am a battle scarred activist - been an activist all my life, and I've never hesitated to speak out and take action when I see some wrong being committed. Hillary is just another professional politician who can make backroom deals with the best of them. I foresee little to no change under a Hillary administration. Yeah, I'd vote for her over Trump, but that's a pretty low bar to meet. Bernie is willing to take on the heavy duty stuff like the rapid climate change which is beginning to destroy our planet; the undue influence of the upper 1% on the governance of the rest of us in the lower 99%; income inequality; the prison industrial complex and all the rest. So Bernie will have my complete support up to the Democratic Convention and if Hillary wins, then so be it. Trump represents a very dark, chilling tide that seems to be rising in our nation, and he needs to be stopped. Hillary is the lesser of the two evils.