Don’t forget, progressivism is known as “nice fascism”. It doesn’t mean they’re nice, it means that they’re doing this for your own good. Funny that they never realize that the bad parts will effect their own lives
Progressive Activists Have Pushed Democrats to the Left on Climate Issues. Now What?
In April, young activists with the Sunrise Movement, a liberal environmental group, held a rally here at Wayne State University to champion radical steps to curb climate change. Their aim: to get Democratic presidential candidates on record supporting the Green New Deal, which ties traditional goals, like reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with social ones, like ending income inequality and providing free health care.
Last week, those candidates were in Detroit for the second round of debates, and the Sunrise activists and other progressives were back, too, taking a victory lap. Since the spring rally, 16 of the 24 Democratic presidential hopefuls have signed onto Sunrise’s Green New Deal goals.
What once seemed like progressive moonshots on climate have now become a critical litmus test for moderates and liberal presidential candidates. The activists have helped shift the Democratic center of gravity further to the left on climate. And now they face the question that often comes to groups that rise swiftly in influence: What next?
Now what in the headline really means what’s next. And what’s next is a massive lurch to the left (which is really to the right on the political scale, into Authoritarianism)
The June and July debates have demonstrated this influence: Left-wing positions dominated discussion of issues like health care, immigration, free public college and reparations for black Americans, leaving many liberals rejoicing and plenty of centrist Democrats fretting. The proof that liberal activism is succeeding, the grass-roots leaders said, was that most candidates dared not dismiss their concerns.
See, they aren’t here to be nice
“Our job isn’t to be nice,†said Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of Justice Democrats, the progressive group that has roiled Washington by challenging more centrist congressional Democrats from the left.
What’s missing in the “what’s next?” is what happens when the general election comes around, and the Democrat candidates have moved way, way, way to the “left”. These people think Biden and Harris are too moderate. How will this play in said general election? When Trump is talking about good jobs, a great economy, loving America, they’ll be up there talking about why everything about America will have to change because America is bad. And, to bring the Green New Deal back in
Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the policy director of New Consensus, the think tank that helped write the Green New Deal resolution, said she wanted politicians to back the full-throated resolution, including its social goals.
“I think something that people miss about the Green New Deal,†Ms. Gunn-Wright said, “it’s about the survival of us as a species and a planet, but it’s also about our survival as a country, which we know that inequality and structural inequity is literally tearing apart our society.â€
“We think that if we have a society, even if it’s green, if we have a country that’s just as stratified as it was before, it’s a failure,†she said.
Ms. Rojas added: “This can’t just be an economic or a climate plan. It’s got to be a just one and we have to talk about indigenous communities. We have to talk about black and brown communities that were historically left out of the original New Deal.â€
Does anyone think this will move the needle for Independents and squishy Trump hating Republicans to vote for the Democrat? Might it cause moderate Democrats to just stay home? They might not vote for Trump, but, they won’t vote Democrat for President.
