The hardcore members of the Cult of Climastrology are unhappy over those Leftists who aren’t crazy hardcores saying Comrade Bernie’s GND is a steaming pile of mule fritters. The subhead tells you where this is going, a fight between the hardcores and the casual Warmists
Neoliberals’ Attack on Sanders’ GND Plan Is a Clear and Present Danger
Democratic Party leaders, the mainstream press, and many in the paid punditocracy are still asking if we can “afford” to implement a program that is—quite literally—necessary
Last week Bernie Sanders released his version of the Green New Deal—a $16.3 trillion 10-year plan to get down to zero carbon in the power industry and in transportation. Right on schedule, the neoliberal establishment pounced on it as “too expensive,” not “realistic” and not “prudent.” Just as they had with other proposals that would have averted the certain physical and fiscal disaster that climate change will cause.
While the neoliberals are posing as prudent, the nature of their attacks on the GND shows they are anything but. Exhibit A has to be the Washington Post‘s anti-GND screed/editorial published on Aug. 25. It violates nearly every tenet of good journalism. For starters, it is really more of an ad hominem attack on progressivism in general and Sanders in particular than it is a reasoned challenge to the GND. But then it goes on to make so many false statements it risks becoming a parody.
So, wait, the Green New Deal is really all about Progressivism (known as Nice Fascism) and not “the environment”? Huh. In fact, the article goes on to discuss jobs, which Comrade Bernie says he will create (just like the Soviet Union created them) out of thin air, more than any environment issues.
The Post‘s objections are not unique. The mainstream press is littered with similar sophistry, and the Democratic Party’s neoliberal establishment is repeating them endlessly, as is the network of think tanks, foundations, and not-for-profits that makes up the Democratic Party’s establishment. In a sense, these groups are even more dangerous than the deniers in the Republican Party’s camp. As evidence that climate change is happening now piles up, the deniers are increasingly like the guy who says, “Who you gonna believe? Your lying eyes or me?”
Almost no one is saying the climate hasn’t changed. The debate is on causation. Regardless, you can see that the hardcore Warmists are getting even more hardcore, because this is about hardcore leftist politics, not the climate, not the environment.
The thing is, most of these “realists”—including the DNC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the neoliberal Democrats—seem more concerned with campaign contributions than they are with prudence. When they ridicule so-called radical ideas like the GND, and invoke prudence, they’re suggesting we can negotiate with the inexorable forces of physics, but you can’t negotiate with physics… that’s a loser’s game if there ever was one.
So, now the DNC and Nancy Pelosi are “neoliberals”, which seems to be a pejorative in Warmist World.
Now, even the staid and conservative IPCC says we are on the brink of a global ecological disaster and only radical, immediate action taken at an unprecedented scale can avert it.
The time for measured or reasonable or “realistic” responses has come and gone. But the leaders of the Democratic Party, the mainstream press, and many in the paid punditocracy are still asking if we can “afford” to implement a program that is—quite literally—necessary to salvage a planetary life support system capable of sustaining civilization as we know it.
Talk about imprudent.
Remember, this line of thought comes from people who refuse to make major changes in their own lives to practice what they preach.
