It's hard for some supporters of student loan forgiveness to understand the antipathy toward the idea. But I think a lot of it is this: America has developed into a class society divided between college-educated and non-college classes, and student loans felt like an equalizer.
In other words, I think many people look at the college-educated class, who earn more then them, get more respect, have nicer jobs, have more job security, suffer less employment in recessions, etc., and think "well at least I don't have to pay off a bunch of student loans."
That's not to say I agree with this attitude or that I feel this feeling myself. I don't. I'm just trying to explain it.
What we actually need to do is compress this class society back into a middle-class one, raise wages, improve job security, reduce unemployment, etc.
I'm in the razor-thin group of annoying people who want to keep the Senate but get rid of the Electoral College.
The Senate gives disproportionate representation to low-population regions. I think that's fine up to a point. But the Electoral College reduces faith in democracy every time it actually matters; it's only OK when you don't notice it. Thus it's a pure negative for our society.
While I don't have a position on @Peter_Turchin's theories overall, I do think that the idea of reducing immigration in order to raise wages makes no sense. Data shows immigration has little effect on wages, and skilled immigration actually raises wages.
If @Peter_Turchin wanted to make an anti-immigration argument, his "elite overproduction" thesis would be a more natural fit. He might argue that skilled immigration is displacing educated native-born Americans from the elite positions they had expected to inherit...
In fact, I think there is something to that argument. And I think it's a low-key, little-discussed reason why Dems will probably allow Trump's cuts in legal skilled immigration to stand...
Trump's first strategy for autogolpe was "Stop the count!!!". It failed.
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His second strategy was to sue to have votes thrown out. That is in the process of failing.
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So what are his remaining strategies? I can think of three...
2/One strategy is trying to persuade electors to be "faithless electors".
That's doomed to failure, since electors are very hard to persuade to flip, Biden's lead is quite large, and many states have laws against faithless electors.
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3/Another strategy, of course, is to do the traditional state-of-emergency, tanks-in-the-streets sort of thing.
But even if Trump were brave enough to do that, there's no way that would succeed. The military won't have it.
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It sounds like a trivial and obvious thing to simply carry out the law. But when many thousands of very scary, very crazy people are screaming for your head, and the President of the United States is trying to bully you into knuckling under, it's scary and it's hard. For anyone.