I’m insulted and not for the reasons that you may think. I’m insulted that you assume that because I don’t support Bernie that I don’t support progressive change. I’m progressive and realistic.

I am up to my eyeballs in debt with paying off student loans for my daughter and me. We both chose to go to private schools because neither of them offer programs we were interested.

The idea of free public education is great in theory but horrible in practice. Although this plan wouldn’t benefit my family, a slight tax increase could be beneficial educate Americans and us competitive in the global market. However, unless he can to get the state and local governments, colleges, parents, Congress, Senate, businesses, and students all on board and in agreement it’s a pipe dream. Access to a decent education is a civil rights issue but we haven’t even solved the problem of public education on the K-12 level, why would anyone want to carry that over to the college level. We violate the rights of K-12 students every day. All of that is before you consider to degradation of the quality of education. There’s only so much free money to go around. Think about our track record with K-12 education, under-funded, low-graduation rates, questionable quality… Let’s be realistic here.

If Bernie is committed to civil rights what is position on the basic civil right of getting a decent education through our public school system?

Free health care? Same argument applies in that it’s great in theory and horrible in practice. The country is still arguing about ACA. A lot of Americans think that Obamacare is bad and the ACA is good without realizing that they are one in the same.

I love Bernie’s Blue Ocean rhetoric. It’s inspirational, it’s dynamic, and it’s a stark contrast to Hillary pragmatism.

I see Bernie as that fun dad that all the kids want to hangout with. The dad that makes a special effort to be friends with his kids and his kids’ friends. I see Hillary as that fun mom that can laugh and joke with her kids but doesn’t cross that line of trying to be their friend. It’s a familiar trope that plays out all of the time and it never ends well.