Friday, February 08, 2019

Democrats' 'Green New Deal' Is Really A Call For Enviro-Socialism | Investor's Business Daily

Democrats' 'Green New Deal' Is Really A Call For Enviro-Socialism | Investor's Business Daily
"The far-left Democrats finally unveiled their plan for their "Green New Deal."
It's a shocking document, essentially a call for enviro-socialism in America.
It's no doubt prompting many across the nation to wonder:
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Senator Ed Markey.Has this once-respectable political party of the working class gone collectively mad?
It sure seems that way.
Reading the Green New Deal (GND) plan, put out Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, one is tempted to think it's not real, just a joke from the satirical "The Onion." 
The individual planks in the plan, individually and collectively, sound like the rantings of someone who should be institutionalized, not like a rational political plan to solve a real problem.
Let's begin with what the plan promises: "a massive transformation of our society with clear goals and a timeline."
That's a sweeping, explicit pledge of radical socialist change.
And that's not all.
It offers "a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War 2 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and create economic prosperity for all."
That's right: 10 years.
They've made it the "moral equivalent of war," that phrase by American philosopher William James that the left pulls out every time they want to impose radical change on the rest of us.
'Massive Transformation'
This is how all truly radical disasters begin, with a glorious Utopian promise of "massive transformation."...
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