Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a very odd definition of what constitutes a “right” and what it means to have “rights.”
In an interview with HuffPost Live Wednesday, Sanders argued for access to free higher education as a “right,” but then confusingly said it shouldn’t apply to everyone.
“I think what we need to do is say yes, higher education should be a right,” he said in the interview. “Not for everybody, people who have the ability, people who have the desire, because that makes our country stronger.”
Sanders also repeated his standard lines about why no one suggests this kind of idea.
“The folks who control politics in America, the people who control the media aren’t particularly interested in that discussion. They’re doing just fine. Ninety-nine percent of all new income being generated is going to the top one percent. The top one tenth of one percent own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. ‘What’s your problem? Things are going just great,'” he said.
Maybe, Sen. Sanders, people don’t want to discuss it because it doesn’t really make sense.
Watch his interview at the Huffington Post.
