This always drives me crazy. How can you think it takes a village if you also think no other adult should ever be around/responsible for your child?

Oh, absolutely! That’s why I was wary of the comment—it seemed, before clarification, to reduce the issue in exactly the problematic way you’re describing, by focusing on the experiences of the least affected people.

It wasn’t the “a lot of us”, necessarily, but the comment about your friends’ experiences being eye opening for you.

You really did present yourself as a person coming from a particular perspective (one of having recently realized, through others’ experiences and not your own, the extent of poverty in this country) in your first several comments, and that colored how I perceived what you were saying. It’s not outlandish or malicious…

I think you’re equating what student loan debt signifies in your social circle (person who finished college, at a relatively respectable and not scammy institution, and is probably going to be able to make their payments) with the reality of who has/most struggles with student loan debt in society as a whole. You’re…

Student loans are a legitimate crisis, though. For the economy broadly, and for lots of people who were poor to begin with. The costs of education alone are a huge contributor to the exact kind of inequality this author is referencing. If you mean the loans of individual people who can afford to make the payments…

I don’t think this is fair. Most people I’ve seen discussing this don’t object to the point that the voting process is flawed, but to the idea that this being the case has anything to do with a particular candidate, or that it’s primarily important because of its affect on their preferred candidate.