The reason why student debt is basically unheard of in Denmark since college is free (although to make that happen, the Danish government poses high taxation towards citizens like they do in order to maintain stable social security nets like subsidised healthcare and public housing, also why they have less homelessness).
Mainly Danish, Swiss and European citizens are eligible to study without stressing over student debt upon graduation. It stems from this: Danish government is more on for the people while American government is more on caring about themselves plus nepotism on the side (MORE & HIGHER TAXES TOO ON TOP OF THAT).
Yes, there’s a lot of that too, but I don’t think that the American experiment with socialism died because of that or that it’s even dead.
I find that things that don’t make sense in American history and politics suddenly become perfectly rational when you consider racism.
And if you look at conservative attacks on social welfare policy, it is often and most effectively done simply be associating welfare with “undeserving” black people. Reagan’s cadillac “welfare queen” was racially coded, as was the “young bucks” eating steaks with food stamps (steak is a food, go figure).
This is the Southern Strategy, how the Republican Party flipped confederate slave states from D to R after the passage of civil rights.