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r/Neoliberal rages hard :marseywitchtriggered: about Biden's recent student loan cancellation

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ww1mxw/ap_sources_biden_set_to_announce_10000_federal

								

								

If you've got federal student loans and/or Pell Grants and make less than $125,000 a year single/$250,000 a year joint, congratulations! If you're an /r/neoliberal user, though, you may feel differently.

From the title: "I unironically would support impeaching Biden over this... Bad timing though, Dems may lose a lot of swing voters over this."

Another user expresses his disgust with the Democrat Party: "Suppose I’m politically homeless now."

A "big moderate" weighs in: "Going to probably vote GOP next election to express my displeasure at this."

"On the one hand, it's pretty dumb that people seem to think Biden is doing this to appease twitter leftists, when the reason he's doing it is because the NAACP, Raphael Warnock, Jim Clyburn, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Latinx Caucus, and other key Democratic stakeholders have been arguing for $10K in forgiveness (or more). On the other hand, it's really funny that some people on here seem genuinely betrayed because they think Biden has sided with bernie bros over them."

"A deplorable handout rewarding financial mismanagement. It makes a fool out of the responsible people who paid off their loans instead of buying video games and the newest iPhone." :soyconsoomer:

"I am seething. This sucks so bad. Literally taking from the poor and giving to the rich" :marseypoor::marseycapitalistmanlet:

"I hope it hurts in the midterms. Buying votes is one of the most dangerous trends in a democracy, and this shit needs to be stopped now."

"You live in a truly insane bubble if you think this will hurt Democrats politically."

"Still seems fricked to me. My step dad who didn’t give a frick about me and didn’t help me made plenty of money. But because i lived in his house, i didn’t get any grants, just loans, and he didn’t give me a penny."

"My parents worked very hard, saved diligently and made huge sacrifices in order to put us through higher education without debts. Can we be "forgiven" $10,000 also, for each child? That money could sure be put towards my parents' retirement. Or are we obliged to pay $10,000 extra, to cover for poorer kids going to university to mostly do useless degrees?"

"I'd have preferred a much more means tested policy, perhaps aimed just at those who make below 50k or 25k rather than 125k"

"r/neoliberal: Actually everyone with a college diploma has at least 3 yachts and a summer home in the Hamptons" :marseycope:

And much more in the SRDine thread writeup.

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Bad timing though, Dems may lose a lot of swing voters over this.

Yes, free money. Famously an absolute vote killer.

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Youngers (and the perpetually young) vote way less than olds on a sliding scale - voter population and swing voter population probably skews towards people who will frown at this.

But I'm probably wrong and this was super calculated towards some 30 year old millennial demographic projected to be in vote-a-lot age. I thought /r/neoliberal stopped believing in swing voters anyway after Nate Silver or somebody said they don't exist or mean anything, but his data just showed "swing" voters have a preference and usually vote along party lines, as opposed to pure wingcucks who allegedly make up the majority of voters.

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There are very few swing voters left lol.

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If you don't think there are a solid chunk of people that vote for the man and not the party you straight up have brain worms

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I mean I base my opinions on data - swing voters are a fairly small minority.

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it's 100% about getting your established base to actually turn up and vote and not skip the election.

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Yes you know how famous university students are for being conservative and republicans…

Definitely not an entire other democratic of individuals who couldn’t go to university who may see this as rich kids having their lifestyle paid for with others money.

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