{"id":9058,"date":"2019-02-09T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=9058"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:58:24","slug":"what-is-this-democratic-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2019\/02\/09\/what-is-this-democratic-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this “Green New Deal” of the Democratic Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Perhaps the most telling statement of\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez at her meeting with the media (February 7, 2019?) in front\nof the Capitol was this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate change and our environmental\nchallenges are one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s comment represents the\nmanner in which the Democratic Party can take a real issue and turn it into\nsawdust with its magic touch. To start with, adding \u201cand our environmental\nchallenges\u201d to \u201cclimate change\u201d significantly weakens the focus and suggests\nthat there is but a spectrum from climate change, to lead in water to irregular\ngarbage pickup by the sanitation department. So also the expression \u201cone of the\nbiggest existential threats\u201d made the term \u201cexistential\u201d seem like a colorful booster,\nsuch as those popular with PR firms, or lobbyists, to describe a topic you want\nto get tax dollars. It is the equivalent of \u201crobust\u201d or \u201ccritical\u201d or \u201cabsolute\nmust.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on my own experience in DC, I am\ndeeply suspicious that this bright and bold statement was in fact written by a\nlobbyist or PR firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That interpretation is further supported by her employment of the hopelessly banal expression \u201cthreats to our way of life\u201d which makes it seem like there is nothing critical or existential at all about the problem, but rather that in the future we may have to pay more for gas, or for vegetables, or not be able to enjoy our weekends with the kids in the park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushes for her borrowed “Green New Deal” <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Democrats have taken the concept and the\ncontent of “Green New Deal” from the Green Party without giving any\ncredit to Jill Stein and her team. They talked about a broad coalition, but\nthey did not invite any Greens, or other groups not related to the Democratic\nParty. I am a bit shocked at how many are willing to just accept this move and\nsee it as a revolution in the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is as\nclosed as it ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the most telling statement of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at her meeting with the media (February 7, 2019?) in front of the Capitol was this one: \u201cClimate change and our environmental challenges are one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life.\u201d Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s comment represents the manner in which the Democratic Party can take … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}