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Socialist “Green New Deal” Laughably Ridiculous February 13, 2019 By Mark Landsbaum We’re told global warming gives us only 5, 10, 12 more years (depending on the doomsayer) before the planet is irretrievably doomed. “Therefore, act now!” alarmists demand. Of course, they’ve been saying the same thing for 10, 20, 25 years. It’s become impossible to spoof these people… Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist Green Deal is so laughably ridiculous even the leftist leadership of her own Democratic Party is running from it. Amid the backlash, she’s apparently removed it from her own web page. For now. Not long ago advancing the idea that every building in the nation must be retrofitted to meet entirely arbitrary standards to protect against the entirely un-dangerous, pretend threat of global warming would have been a non-starter, even among the looniest of the loony left. Too say nothing of abolishing all airline flights, getting rid of cows that fart and eliminating every vehicle with internal combustion engines in 10 years, as AOC proposes. Previously these would have been the things of satire, or of darkest fiction. But so too would have been the notion a man can be a woman simply by declaring it to be so, or that a baby can legally be murdered after birth if her mother didn’t want to be bothered to raise the child. We’ve come a long way, baby. Let’s be clear. The only way such schemes can be implemented is by force. At the point of a gun, or at least by the threat of punishment, physical, fiscal or otherwise. The socialistic redistribution of wealth is what really is behind the global warming scare. The trouble is, people refuse to give their money to other people simply because the others’ want it. That’s why every socialist state enforces its diktats at gunpoint. Being exposed as absurd, as AOC has been, won’t stop socialist, redistributionist authoritarians. They intend for you to submit to government control, and to pay for the indignity.
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