Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) released her highly anticipated “Green New Deal” last week — and instantly botched it.
Along with the plan, which has some 70 Democrats backing it, AOC’s office published an FAQ document outlining some of the plan’s ultimate goals — and they are not just radical, they’re utterly impossible.
The result was much mockery and derision from critics on the right, concern, and confusion from fans on the left, and her office quickly pulling the much-maligned FAQ document from her GND page.
After suggesting that conservatives were somehow to blame, her team now says we should all forget about the document because it was just an “early draft” that they accidentally posted and distributed to major news outlets.
As the FAQ debacle was unfolding, Campus Reform‘s Cabot Phillips journeyed to the campus of the University of Miami to ask students how they felt about AOC’s plan to combat climate change and, in the process, restructure the entire economy.
The students initially felt great about Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.
“I view it favorably. I think that we need to cut our reliance on fossil fuels,” said one student. “It’s definitely a great idea,” added another.
“I like that it’s progressive. I like that it’s gonna push the world forward to where we need to be,” another said.
“I would say it’s a favorable act,” one student said succinctly.
“From knowing who’s endorsed it and some little things, it sounds great,” mused another. “I think it’d be great for us!” exclaimed one.
Some of the students made clear that they perceive global warming as an apocalyptic concern. “I think if we didn’t do that, then we’re going to be killing ourselves, basically,” said one student. “So we need to take care of ourselves.”
“Anything that would reduce our dependence on fossil fuels is really important,” agreed another. “I definitely support this movement,” said one student generally.
But when asked by Phillips about the Green New Deal’s ultimate goals of eliminating all use of fossil fuels, including natural gas, in the next decade and other radical elements, the students’ enthusiasm about the plan quickly dwindled.
“I don’t think that that is something that would be able to be done in such a short amount of time,” one student said.
“I think ten years is a little extreme,” said another, “because there’s such a big global market and economic impact of oil businesses …”
“Sounds like a reach, honestly,” says another student, laughing. Asked if he thinks it sounds “feasible,” another student said flatly, “No.”
Some of the strongest responses came to Ocasio-Cortez’s team’s goal laid out in the since-deleted FAQ of giving every American “economic security” even if they are “unable or unwilling to work.”
Read more at Daily Wire
They like and they want it until the read the fine print eliminate the use of all FOSSIL FUELS then they change their minds Yeah and the story of the Trojan Horse or in this case The Trojan Jackass its better to burn it at the gates and not bring it into the city
The new media strategy . Lie… and the bigger the better aided by a globalist desperate MSM .
Why are parents and students paying or going into debt to attend expensive brain wash schools ?
Online University time has come . No more 300 person lecture halls lead by tenured prof’s who could care less . No propaganda platforms where you better parrot back the shit they are serving or you are screwed .
I was at the Fremont Fair in Seattle and witnessed signature gathers working for I-1631, the initiative that would have taxes carbon dioxide emissions. It was presented as initiative to combat pollution. Not once was the word “tax” used. They had no trouble gathering signatures. By the time of the election people knew about the tax part and it was defeated by a large margin.
The Green New Deal is the same. When people learn of the details, everyone except the most radical among will be against it.
Time to bring back communes.
Give these people places to create societies based on their ideals, from scratch. There is no need to intervene in the evolution of modern society. Go your own way. I suggest that New York, California and British Columbia offer themselves up. When their schemes fail, they’ll blame Capitalism. Truth is, they’ll fail because the capitalists fled.
Polling university students and seeing their responses brings to mind an addage that really holds true: “Those who are not liberal under age 30 have no heart; those tho remain liberal after age 30 have no brain.” Let’s hope that continued education and exposure to reality gives these students some much-needed cranial power.
I guess I was one without heart because after I got out of HS and went into the Navy I have never been liberal. But then the work we had to do in the Navy may have kept us from feeling the someone should take care of us.