Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete Buttigieg argues against free college. This is why progressives can't agree about subsidizing t [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the details, certainly not something as complex with as many ways of approaching solutions as funding higher education. What matters is that we all agree on the tremendous value of education, the rights of the people to fulfill themselves through education, and the need to fix this huge national funding problem. And that the Republicans oppose it.
Republicans are actually trying to change us to a nation in which fewer are educated and then only in subjects and to a level that will serve the needs of employers. Forget taking a class in renaissance history because it appeals. If those controlling some red states have their way, in future nothing like that will even be offered at their state colleges. HUGE, existential difference from what all of us believe is right and necessary.
Frankly, compared to the Republicans' and business's corrupt product of requiring college students to go into crippling debt for sometimes decades, affordable college and free college are practically the same thing. I remember when I was young, lived very modestly and had little money to spare, and still paid for a full semester of classes the way I'd write a check for the week's groceries.
We'll get the power to make it happen and work out the details. Tennessee is making some college and university free and some affordable, and state and community college students there are 100% better off than in predatory states.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden