And now even I am getting upset with Bernie. The following statement makes me cringe with vicarious shame:
Secretary Clinton has come up, as usual, with a very complicated and convoluted approach on higher education. You got to spend half your life filling out forms and checking your income every day.
Hillary’s college plan is intelligent and thought out. And Bernie’s plan is simply bad. It’s bad not because it’s hard to put into practice. It’s actually very easy to implement. But because it is not thought out and full of unconnected, unintelligent gimmicks that look nice to people who have zero understanding of higher ed. In reality, though, they are a disaster.
Bernie lost the nomination not because anybody conspired against him and evil superdelegates something something. But because he didn’t do the work. He’s into grand visions but the grunt work of preparing an intelligent, meaningful reform plan bores him and, apparently, everybody in his campaign as well. Hillary’s college plan looks complicated to him because it’s nuanced. It’s sad that nobody in his inner circle has managed to tell him the truth about how bad his own plan is.
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