Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Tulsi Gabbard sounds off on 'clear bias' during her debate" video.

@michaelh878 : That's simply not true. The feds pay a far greater percentage of the bill for colleges and universities. And the more they pay, the more the COST of education skyrockets. Many states had "land-grant colleges," that were directly subsidized by STATE taxes. What we have NOW are all the colleges and universities pushing all kinds of crazy Obama-inspired policies in order to preserve their access to students on Federal Financial Aid. The feds aren't building or maintaining colleges. But they're putting money in the hands of students and then making all the institutions accepting federal financial aid toe the establishment line. That's where all the Safe Spaces and Diversity and Equity madness is being driven from. Obama executive-ordered a multitude of identity-politics mandates and warned of future such coming down the pike, and administrators are STILL acting like they want to stay out in front of more outlandish and racist mandates in the name of "diversity and equity." Diversity and equity are also entirely new layers of bureaucracy added to alread-bloated college bureaucracies. And the bureaucrats LOVE it! It grows their domains! And it has zero to do with teaching kids worthwhile knowledge. Even with Trump in office, there is a HUGE amount of inertia pushing institutions farther and farther left. Trump will need a whole 2nd term to put a halt to the insanity our federal tax dollars are supporting in k-12 on up through college. They live in echo chambers that are very difficult to open to daylight, and in the circles in which they operate, there is no moderation.
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@IMMee-qu3qz : I don't think anybody's forgetting that she is merely the lesser of two evils within the ideologically-bankrupt Democrat party.
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@Jamaican Voodoo Posse : I'm all fer MAGA 2020. But that's only because of how far astray we were before Trump. After 8 years, I'll want a new crew of scoundrels. And the Constitution agrees with me.
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@magicsam8247 : Because it devalues the quality and overall value of the learning product. The more we divorce the customers from the true cost of the product, the lower the quality, the fewer the choices, and the higher the cost. There are many learning products out there that do a better job than public institutions and at a tiny fraction of the cost. But the teacher's unions don't want you to know that. Over the next 10-20 years, we're going to see more and more cheap, high-quality learning products taking up more and more of the education market. When you make the product free, there's less pressure on the student to pursue productive skills. They can indulge themselves in all kinds of nonsense that adds zero value to society, like the entire Grievance-Studies wing of the humanities, in which students learn nothing of value, but everything about how to protest and virtue-signal in a game of high-stakes I'm-more-oppressed-than-you contests . I got all the activist training I needed just by hanging out with the hippie crowd, in college. It had nothing to do with the language, science and math skills on which I built a successful career. Now even math and science are giving way to political correctness, with science-deniers trumping the facts and evidence with victimization ideology. The quadratic formula DGAF who you voted for or what color your skin is. It simply IS.
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I agree with economic sanctions. When other countries don't treat their people and their neighbors right, I don't think we should give them much or any trade. If they don't respect the rights of their own citizens, then how can we have any kind of respectable trade relations with them? This is one of the FEW tools, short of war, that the Constitution empowers the executive branch and Congress for raising taxes and dealing with foreign sovereignties. This is the one area where I part with the pure libertarians. Yes, you need a central government, and this is the only way it's authorized to raise money. Of course, that doesn't raise enough money to run what Dems and Republicans think is a reasonable-sized government. It's plenty for what I want the feds to do, though!
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Gabbard is merely the least rotted of a bushel of rotten apples.
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