Last Night's Dem Debate in NH | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: On Sanders, free tuition and single payer health care are not necessarily moral issues - they are practical concerns. We have assisted tuition and health insurance which meets the moral necessity argument. Now, if Sanders went after the part of the ACA which had the Department of Education offer student loans directly - and pointed out that their generous forebearance options allow former students to build up debt based on capitalized interest - and that he would forgive that capitalized interest because it can probably never be paid - that would be a moral argument. If he made financiers write down underwater mortgages, that would be a moral argument. We are trying to get him to say that.
As for Clinton, she likes Wall Street types and likes taking their money. If she were to call them devils, that would be a lie. Love her or hate her, she is a neoliberal elitist. The real elephant in the room is Bill Clinton back in the White House. They promise he will stay out of the Oval, but does anyone really believe it, given the fact that he let her in? Sanders should stress that too. If he makes this election a referendum on Clinton policy, he wins the vote of all poor people. As to suggestions on how she might win - I would never dream of making them.
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