A lot of politics is about solving problems.
Here is Sanders talking about one problem.
“In a highly competitive global economy, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country and our future, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades.”
Here is the source of the above.
berniesanders.com/…
Read that page closely and you notice one thing. Nowhere is there any justification for the claim that such a workforce is important for the future of the United States. Nor did I find such a justification mentioned in the second primary debate.
So why does Sanders say it? It sounds facially impressive but how much is the future decided by having a highly-educated workforce?
Is a doctor made a better doctor by being able to quote Plato?
Does a construction worker perform better by knowing about the details of Godel’s incompleteness theorems?
Does a cancer researcher need to know what happened in FDR’s first term?