You see how free-floating various ideological descriptors are in the knowledge that this has become a standard critique of Biden in "socialist" media. https://twitter.com/micahuetricht/status/1342152386786320384
I'm for a modest student debt forgiveness program (which I think is what Biden will do) but as you shift from "modest" to "total" debt forgiveness you are increasingly talking about helping dentists and lawyers rather than sympathetic cases. https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-canceling-a-lot-of-student
The case for canceling a lot of student debt

There's a good plan here

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-canceling-a-lot-of-student
In other words, $10,000 worth of forgiveness would be a game-changer for a community college graduate but it genuinely doesn't do that much for you if you followed up your Brandeis education with a Yale Law School degree and then sociology grad school at Harvard.
There's a particular irony in the extent to which Jacobin and Current Affairs spent the primary warning that Elizabeth Warren's coalition was too full of educated professionals to deliver a real left agenda. Heal thyself!
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