Neil Cavuto Confronts Student Activist Pushing Insane Demands for Free College

 By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

I don���t know if any of you had the chance to see this exchange the other day between Keely Mullen, the National Coordinator of the Million Student March, and Neil Cavuto of the FOX Business Network. There���s a lot that could be said about this, and if you haven���t seen the entire exchange, you owe it to yourself to do so.

In brief, Mullen gets on with Cavuto to explain how the outlandish demands of the movement���forgiveness of the over $1 trillion in existing student debt, free public higher education for all, and a $15 minimum wage for all students employed on campus���can, and should, be covered by the rest of us, and particularly by that evil ���one percent.��� On that point, Mullen seemed fine with taxing the country���s wealthiest folks at 90 percent, and didn���t seem that put off by the idea that all of their money should be taken to finance the socialist ideas she and the rest of her ilk are proposing.

Okay.

Watch the interview for yourself. As for me, it speaks, largely, to what those of us who care about the future of this country are up against. It is also a reminder of the other edge of the sword wielded by ���everyman media��� in the world now. Yes, it is very egalitarian, in one sense, that everyone has a voice now, so to speak. However, one of the distinct problems with it is that it enables some of the silliest, most bizarre ideas you���ve ever heard actually gain a perception of legitimacy within the broad, running narrative; once that happens, the rest of us have to defend ourselves and our country against dangerous stupidity. Most notably, we have to do so at the ballot box, where pandering, disingenuous politicians use these ideas to appeal to what are, truly, the lowest of ���low information��� voters, those who aggressively support destructive notions in the interest of getting free stuff for themselves.