1/ I don’t understand how establishment Democrats can fail to realize how much appreciation and loyalty would be created by 45 million people having their college loan debts canceled.

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2/ Then imagine those same people being told that because we passed Medicare4All, they will no longer have out-of-pocket healthcare expenses.
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3/ Then imagine people being told that they don’t have to worry about sending their kids to college anymore because there will be free tuition at state colleges and universities, plus free tuition at the best trade schools.
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4/ Do you think they would reject you, or do you think they would vote for you? Time and bandwidth now to spend with their families, an absence of chronic economic despair, and the space to live the lives they most want to live. How can it be bad politics to treat people well?
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And how pissed the rest of us would be who either worked to pay off our debt, or didn’t incur the debt to begin with that we would now be paying off for someone else through our tax contributions.
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There are approximately the same number of people, 40 million or so, living in abject poverty. So, if we are going to spend $1.5T on 14% of the population, let us spend it there. That money will zoom around the economy even faster.
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More DNC folks suddenly talking about student debt... bait and switch. Ms Williamson, you are establishment. Stop playing.
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You was European style social programs without European style taxes. That’s why the socialist wet dreams of your party will destroy the economy.
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They don’t work for us, they work for the oligarchs and ultra wealthy elites, that’s why. I know you know this. I hope you’re just trying to make a point.
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Maybe you should realize that party is corrupt, oozing evil. Time to #DemExitAndDontLookBack
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You are little more than a naive child
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And how much resentment from the Untermenschen without degrees of
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Same with UBI.
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I don't understand how you can fail to make the distinction between them not "realizing" and them not caring. It's not the former.
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