When socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first floated her “Green New Deal,” it was an intangible vision for society rather than a concrete policy proposal. Even after the New York Democrat and her acolytes added details (including a ban on airplanes and flatulent cows) in a voluminous range of policies costing an astounding $93 trillion, the idea of running the economy without fossil fuels seemed unthinkable.
Now, however, thanks to the pandemic lockdown of society, the public is in a position to judge what the “Green New Deal” revolution would look like. It's like redoing this global pandemic and economic slump every year.
Environmental activists say the silver lining of the lockdown is that carbon emissions will drop by nearly 6% globally this year because of reduced travel and industrial emissions. Climate hawks such as Ocasio-Cortez call for this level of reduction every year. The United Nations Environment Programme goes even further, demanding 7.6% each year to stave off climate change.
“This is what ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ looks like,” prominent climate activist Eric Holthaus wrote on Twitter. “We're doing it. It's possible!”
“That's the whole point of a Green New Deal,” he continued. “We can build a better world for everyone out of the ashes of the old one.”
Ocasio-Cortez, incorrectly pointing to falling oil prices as a boon to green energy, agrees that the coronavirus shutdown reflects her vision of a climate change solution. Full Story - Washington Examiner
Goodbye, Green New Deal
After a couple of weeks of great economic sacrifice it's already proving hard for Americans to take. No one will sign up for a lifetime of it.
What will happen next with the coronavirus epidemic is unknown, but it seems certain to claim one very high-profile victim: the so-called Green New Deal. Good Riddance
The current crisis in the U.S. economy is, in miniature but concentrated form, precisely what the Left has in mind in response to climate change: shutting down large sectors of the domestic and global economies through official writ, social pressure, and indirect means, in response to a crisis with potentially devastating and wide-ranging consequences for human life and human flourishing.
What is under way right now in response to the epidemic is in substance much like the Green New Deal and lesser versions of the same climate-change agenda - Read More: Enigmose
Take a good look at the congresswoman with the IQ of an eggplant, no not Maxine Waters, the pretty one, AOC - Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Turn the volume off and just look while she speaks, her facial expressions, her mannerisms all portray a brilliant intellectual deep in contemplation as she attentively gives audience to her interviewers and absorbs their chatter with Einstonian confidence. When she herself speaks, her body language is fluid like a sparkling pristine rhetorical stream, her arms and hands are orchestrated in concert as if conveying some deep seated meaning to life that we as mere mortals somehow failed to comprehend.
Now turn the volume back on .... Geez Louise ... WTF!! Like the silent movie actresses who's illusions were shattered after the talkies came out, once she opens her mouth its apparent, she's a blithering idiot ! So how did this idiot get into Congress ?! - AOC - Whose Sock Puppet is She ?
The tactics employed by current day Leftists were developed in the 30s and 40s by the Nazis and Stalinist Russia ,perfected by the totalitarian dictators of Communist China in the 50s and 60s, and utilized extensively by American Liberals since at least the early 70s.
Exposed in a fictional format by George Orwell's science fiction novel entitled '1984', it was scientifically first exposed by Robert Jay Lifton in Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China iThought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China - Paperback 1961 in the 60s .
Feminists, Gays, Liberal 'Progressives' and other degenerate groups have adopted much of the strategy into their Arsenals.
