We Used to Have the Free Public College Bernie Sanders Promises to Give Us.
The education we used to have, and why it was taken away.
There are a number of factors that contribute to millennials and the Generation Z being considerably further to the left on the political spectrum than their parents and Grandparents, but the student debt crisis here in the United States is without a doubt one of the leading contributors to this generational divide.
While Elizabeth Warren often tells the crowds she’s addressing about how it only cost her fifty dollars a semester to go to college, millennials and younger generations are faced with being burdened by debt that is structurally designed to follow them around for the rest of their lives should they chose to further their education. Is it any surprise then that a candidate like Bernie Sanders, who has a plan for erasing the student debt entirely and implementing free public college has resonated so strongly with America’s young people?
While politicians and pundits both on the left and the right might dismiss Bernie’s free college plan as nothing more than a socialist pipe dream or empty promise, they conveniently negate to tell young Americans that there was once a time when public college was in fact free to attend in a number of states across the country.
