From CBS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-west-virginia-free-college-after-students-pass-a-drug-test/
West Virginia, home to some beautiful scenery, a very nice 84% white population, and a fantastic anime OP by John Denver, has quietly passed a bill that closest aligns with a radical right view of how the government should assist society by offering free public college to those who pass a drug test.
Even the government buildings are beautiful
I hope why this law is good is clear. It has the government providing people with something that, in today’s world, is mostly necessary, and making access to it easier for non-degenerates. In a state with a reputation for wiggerish behavior, this law is that much more of a positive.
I’ve heard people say that the government should offer financial benefits for citizens for living morally good lives, like an extension of Hungary’s policy that financially incentivizes large families. While sobriety isn’t where the government should stop legislating morality, applying it to college payments is a novel way to implement this, and, one that, I think, does nothing but help. Similar things, of course, should be done with sexual behaviors and applied to things like welfare.
Is it a surprise to anyone that West Virginia, one of the whitest states in the union, would be the first in the nation to pass this law? Granted, it’s explicitly non-racial, but, the prerequisite of being sober is implicit acknowledgement that opposition to ‘free stuff’, as a boomer would say, in the form of gibs is solely because of niggerish misuse of this support, one that shows a healthy society should naturally support its people, so long as they don’t act like total degenerates.
You can already see white people’s penchant for things like this in Vermont’s unrelenting election for Bernie Sanders, but, of course, you can’t trust New Englanders to go for something healthy for those outside their bubble. West Virginia is in the same cultural vein as Nebraska, the midwestern state I grew up in, and, while it’s fading coal industry is not comparable to the increasingly exploited Nebraskan agriculture industry, the sort of shared rural white opposition to coastal elitists, along with suffering with similar drug epidemics, which this bill also stands to help.
Of course, ‘champagne socialist’ areas like New England, Seattle, Portland, and Colorado are the most active drug users in the country, outside of black areas in most big cities, and they would never accept a law preventing junkies from getting free college. They’d probably call it oppressive, or something. And you’d definitely hear about it, because there’d be protests.
It’s kind of a shame, really, that this is going by so quietly, because it’s exactly what we need. The government should reward its citizens for good behavior in this way, but, since the media doesn’t care about West Virginia being a good state, and because its good people don’t complain about a law that, in every way, benefits them, you probably won’t hear about this.
And, since the Democratic debates are starting this week, free college will be relevant, but, of course, it’s more about debt forgiveness, especially for those who got shit degrees at overrated big universities, and laws like this, which benefit the people for the future, will go largely unnoticed by those outside populist or fascist circles.
No tie in here, just lovely WV
Admittedly, there are problems with this. A drug test can be faked rather easily, and it doesn't outline a plan for more than one per semester. Several ones a year, at random, would be ideal, and I can't see why nobody else would see that.
The best that can come from this, realistically, is precedence. Hopefully other states can see that free college doesn't have to be stark socialism with forgiveness of debt beyond mere usury, but a way to encourage socially conservative behavior among young people.
It’s also a sign of how democracy can work, how change really works, not just in the gay, progressive sense, but for the better. It’s a small start, but it’s a positive overall, and isn’t the end all be all for anything in any. And for that, I simply say congratulations to based West Virginia.
