Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Be The Leading Democrat On Climate Change

Huffington Post ^ | 6/27/18 | Alexander C. Kaufman

[Libloather]

QUEENS, N.Y. ― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning primary victory over powerful U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in the working-class New York district stretching from the Bronx to Queens is likely to propel her avowedly left-wing platform into the Democratic mainstream as the 2018 midterm elections heat up.

But her detailed proposals to deal with climate change could prove among the most influential at a time when the Democrats have failed to rally around any policy that could feasibly reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically enough to make a difference.

Ocasio-Cortez outlined plans to transition the United States to a 100 percent renewable energy system by 2035. It’s a goal hailed by environmentalists as the last best hope of staving off the most catastrophic effects of human-caused planetary warming, and it’s one already adopted by a coalition of mayors representing 42 percent of U.S. electricity use and representing major cities such as Atlanta and St. Louis.

[Islander7]

FORMER BARTENDER, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Will Be The Leading Democrat On Climate Change

[MUDDOG]

Democrat bigwig hoist with their own diversity petard!

Gotta love it.

[kearnyirish2]

The incumbent she beat should be re-thinking the open borders endorsed by his party; many white libs are going to be unseated by the Bronze Horde as it replaces the Americans (of both parties) in their districts...

[kearnyirish2]

Many of them ARE thinking of ways to get on the taxpayers’ backs - they just aim lower (municipal government jobs).

[cgbg]

industrial armies, especially in agriculture

So does that mean she wants to demolish the abandoned buildings in the Bronx and convert them to agriculture?

Just asking. :-)

[sappy]

exactly like obama was made to be lemonade....

[sappy]

exactly like obama was made to be lemonade....

[sappy]

exactly like obama was made to be lemonade....

[jonrick46]

Great comment. The countries these illegals are coming from are all they know: Countries that are controlled by elite ruling class Marxists.

[The_Media_never_lie]

And she has studied climatology how long?

[virgil]

The democrat party has been hijacked by far left progressive loons who want to do anything they want,and to hell with your constitutional rights. Your rights will be stolen by foreigners that they will gladly welcome into this country by the millions. Of course, somebody’s going to have to pay for their bad ideas. There’s always those 401ks to raid.

[VanDeKoik]

That “platform” is straight-up Venezuela at light speed.

[JonPreston]

many white libs are going to be unseated by the Bronze Horde as it replaces the Americans

You've hit the nail squarely on it's head.

[JonPreston]

Yes indeed.

[Moonman62]

What sets Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal apart is her plan to meet the target by implementing what she called a “Green New Deal,” a federal plan to spur “the investment of trillions of dollars and the creation of millions of high-wage jobs.”

...

The problem is coming up with trillions of dollars without stealing it, printing it, or confiscatory taxation.

[MountainWalker]

This communist moron was a bartender as recently as late last year, but she’s got big ideas for how to steer the climate of the planet to safety.

[DoodleBob]

Oh, come on now...she MEANS well:

“Half measures will not work,” she said. “The time for slow and incremental efforts has long past.”

So yes...let us look to the great socialist success, such as that time in China when they turned away from "slow and incremental efforts" ...

...advances in Ukrainian agriculture...

...Pol Pot's skeletal catalog system...

...Soviet full employment in building the White Sea-Baltic Canal...

...thespian charity during the war...

...and the American Antifa (here getting clocked in the head)...

What's to fear?

[The Antiyuppie]

“The problem is coming up with trillions of dollars without stealing it, printing it, or confiscatory taxation.”

That is not a problem. Not at first, anyway. Venezuela did fairly well for itself...for a short while.

[IncPen]

If everyone wants to live in Venezuela, why should we travel?

Why can’t we have it here?

[bert]

Apparently, they have it in the formerly American state of New York

Venezuela is now there