The private university system is like a continuation of country clubs & good Ole boys network. It's existence requires exclusivity & stealing public resources. It then pushes benefits, not related to education, as a means of luring the money while alienating the community.
We carry the student debt. They get the land tax free. They leverage eminent dormant to take lands and claim blight on communities to steal homes as well. Then gate it off and hire police to keep locals out
Consider your history of Columbia, Trinity and Yale.

I suggest some prileved individuals that have benefited from this arrangement lead the fight against student debt and reclaim those lands and tax the lands immediately.
@DavarianBaldwin your book is an epic deep dive and as you quote several times, you are only touching the surface.

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities g.co/kgs/jFopzv

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9 Nov
An (un)official Real Progressives update:

Microsoft started in a garage. The Homebrew Computing Club.

Gates, Wozniak and Jobs were not exactly what you call... activists... then. They were visionaries.

They started with an idea. 1/x

@RealProgressUS @RP_In_Action
Then they took certain steps to build the foundations of the idea... and began making the idea a reality

It took a lot of commitment when it was just an idea. A lot of people had to lift the heavy bags, turn the screws and pound the nails...
They didn't start out ruling the world. Nor did they do it alone. Nor was it w/out tireless efforts & lots of unpaid hours building the dream.

The same w/ @RealProgressUS ...

No, I am not comparing us with Microsoft, Apple or Google... I am merely pointing to a vital truth...
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Venting...

1. Most think America is broke so it cannot afford the fixes or massive overhauls required.

1/x
2. Most believe that the nation is in staggering debt and is dependent on wealthy people to save us so they get defeated
3. States are directly impacted by the ebbs and flows of federal spending as all new money comes from the federal government, not the rich
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When people are desperate & suicidal most people wish they would just shut up & suffer quietly. Then, post mortem, they will wax poetic about how important you were to them, post on social media, maybe even share the suicide hotline to take the moral veneer of a caring person.
...when in reality the time for all of that was when the person desperately needed to talk or just get a hug. Depression and desperation tell them to hide away and die. Reactions reinforce that... then the shame... then the dying.
The disease of self reliance and capitalism (in the current form of neoliberalism) makes so many feel like irresponsible failures and the debt trap locks them down and in and there is absolutely no escape save for the grave.
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I remember when I first started working at C&P Telephone Company, many of the old timers told me "it's all a dead end. There is no opportunity..." they were wrong, but they were right to doubt that management had their best interests.

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Management was paid to do a job as well. Management was "at will" & had to dance as well. This is a story of infighting in the 99%. Management is labor too. They come in, wage slave, insecurity, the whole enchilada. We have been conditioned to fight each other. Crabs in a barrel.
Rather than allow folks to succeed we attempt to tear people down and it keeps us all stuck because even the best ideas cannot save us if we live as crabs in a barrel.
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People will not fight for what they do not believe is possible.

People self select themselves out of the picture and create self fulfilling prophecies and allow defeat to overwhelm them to the point of inertia.

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The Green New Deal requires people to understand we can not only afford BUT DO great things and that requires the answer to the "how will you pay for this" part.
Because any thinking human being can see taxes never pay for bombs, nuclear weapons, tanks and F35 planes, why in the world would we place such a burden on spending on the people of this nation?
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Those who fan the flames of fear over the National Debt and the Defiict are using coded and deeply bigoted strategies to keep the poor, poor and to keep racial justice on the back burner under the auspices of affordability.

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Are you someone that has championed "reducing the deficit"?
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