"It is if you use that to try and shut down all oppositional media. Which Trump and his Supporters would like to do"
So they're learning tactics from the left, eh? Such a shame, they should be better than the left. Neither side should be doing that, unless they're shutting down /actual/ fake news that is purporting to be true, and that's something the left is way more guilty of than the right, by sheer virtue of there being so many more left-biased media outlets. Jim Acosta has admitted it, and CNN, Buzzfeed, and many other left-wing media outlets are losing money hand over fist due to their fake news causing even left leaning viewers to abandon them.
But again, simply saying "fake news" is not itself infringing on the right to free speech.
"But you gotta admit, having a free, at the point of consumption, or at the least affordable education that is good and doesn't bankrupt you is good. Why would it be bad?"
I didn't say it would be bad, or not all bad. It just had absolutely nothing to do with the argument. In any case, just because the student doesn't have to pay anything out of pocket, that doesn't mean the education is "free". It would still be have to be paid for by tax dollars, and you don't think the US would reallocate funds from the military budget for that, do you?
Also, the /quality/ of education would by necessity go down... not that it hasn't dropped drastically in the last decade with all these bullshit courses like "gender studies".
Rather than pushing to make education free, how about we stop pushing the narrative that a college education is absolutely necessary to get anywhere. There are countless people doing quite well for themselves with nothing more than a high school education. Certain specialties like the sciences and medicine obviously would require post-secondary education, but most of these "students" would have been better off to get into a vocation and spend that time earning money and experiencing real life.
The idea that a college education is a necessity is something mainly pushed by the colleges themselves. It's good PR to attract customers... I mean students, and justifies the steadily increasing tuitions.
""Which is your way of admitting they exist" ~Thats not really true and you know it"
No I do not know that at all. Stereotypes exist for a reason, therefore calling something a stereotype is a direct admission that it bears some truth.
Apparently too long, part 2 coming.