According to the NYT article[0] “about five million borrowers are in default” which means like 1.5% of the population is about to have 15% of their wages garnished. Seems pretty intense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/student-loan-debtors-default-wages-garnish.html

They were media-blitzed by virtually 100% of available media, into committing this as their first political act (I guess for lots of them it was their first election).
I find it infinitely cruel. Boomers, once again, eating their young :(
Now imagine you’re twenty, and that was your first vote, and you got scammed into bringing the collapse of western civilization. Would you have the intellectual honesty to recognize what you’ve done? Or would you rationalize it and double down on it?
It makes me so fucking sad. Really a cruel joke to play on people who were teenagers just a few years ago. We’ll all pay for this.