The '24 Presidential Election Contest...and related bits

Bacle said:
Eh, no, not before RvW was overturned; Trump brought non-traditional/non-base voters to the GOP because he wasn't a dyed-in-the-wool GOP tradcon, or a fringe GOP reactionary just looking to burn it all down.

A lot of people, usually foreigners and first gen/newly immigrated people who support Trump because the see a proto-Pinochet (cough @The Immortal Watch Dog cough), have simply gotten sold the illusion Trump is some kind of tradcon/reactionary savior when he very much is not, and never was.

The fact is the reactionary/tradcon Right is a rather small part of the US electorate, places like this just make people in it feel less isolated and outnumbered than it really is, and those who appeal to the center/moderates will always have a better chance electorally (when the elections are fair and legit) in the US than candidates who only try to appeal to either the fringe of their base or only try to 'preach to the choir' for primary purposes.

The fringe of the Right most of the time just shows why the Horseshoe Theory of Politics holds water, and usually shoots itself in the metaphorical foot because of either purity spirals or simply living in illusions of how many people in the US actually support them.
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So basically the US electorate has been so brainwashed that the the only choices are the mental-hospital-extreme-Left (DNC) and somewhat-sane-but-mentally-retarded-left (GOP).

Yeah, US are screwed. And the rest of the West alongside it.
 
The Whispering Monk said:
That might work to lower tuition as well.
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What he should do ontop of this is to revoke the subsidy in Florida that allows Universities to receive a quarter of a billion dollars a year in aid if they open hospitals. That's essentially allowed corporate culture to infest some of Florida's most based Unis.

And then do stuff like that on a national scale.

We could use some more trade schools too.
 
Bacle said:


DeSantis calling for universities to foot the bill for defaulting student debt, which seem like a great way to remove the problem of student debt and remove a large part of the power/finances of education cartels as well.
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They should have been and should be in the future. But that does nothing about the currently existing student loan debt, the US government has already guaranteed it and the damage from abrogating that and forcing it onto private actors (the universities) far outweighs the costs of the US government just eating the loss.

Of course, the brutal truth is that without US government guarantees the interest rates on student loans would be around 25%. Unsecured loans on 18 year old's with no/minimal current income, zero assets, and (currently) few/no marketable skills do not get reasonable interest rates.

Remove the government guarantees and the people who end up in college become 1) older, experienced, adults who have saved up and can afford to send themselves to college, 2) younger individuals whose family can afford to send them to college (the historical norm), or 3) those individuals who can find an organization willing to sponsor them for whatever reason.

In any case, the entire higher education industry goes away. Enrollment drops drastically and those who are attending want value for money with a much stronger focus on economically useful skills. If a corporation is sponsoring an employee for a degree, for example, then they want a degree program that increases the economic productivity of that employee by enough to justify the expense of the program.

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Granted, we really also need to deal with the K-12 education system because that is at least as fucked up as higher education.
 
Probably wouldn't need student loans to begin with if the government would stop paying them out. Universities are literally using them as a blank check, and will just keep driving their prices up higher and higher because the government is just bumping up the loan amounts in response.
 
Good Morning folks. I see former US Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) announced he's running for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2024. Not sure why he's doing this?
 
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