Friday, March 8, 2019

Part of the Green New Deal


or New Green Deal, or whatever it is.

“To promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution as ‘frontline and vulnerable communities’);”


Dang, girl. Go through the Justice Democrats/Socialist Party Phrase Book and turn that into a proposal presented to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. What you really have is a collection of words that will not pass the House, and certainly not the Senate. All the proposal will do is lead to arguments ad nauseam and recrimination upon recrimination when the bills fail.

“Okaaaaay. So what Ocasio-Cortez and Markey have achieved, along with all of the Democrats who’ve endorsed this childish wish list, is to make themselves look like dummies, and to reinforce the impression that they are totally unserious about combating climate change.” (Same link.)


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