Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a march organized by the Women’s March Alliance in Manhattan, January 19, 2019. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)
Posted on 02/10/2019 5:38:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
The Green New Deal makes every progressive an armchair general
This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) says about her so-called Green New Deal. The marketing material published in support of the concept — and that’s all the Green New Deal is: an advertising campaign without a product — offers what passes for soaring rhetoric anno Domini 2019, calling for a “new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II.”
This is Sandy’s War.
In my forthcoming book, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, I consider an observation from Erich Fromm, the Marxist-Freudian social critic whose Escape from Freedom was required reading only a generation ago. (It remains worth reading.) Fromm believed that the disruption of the medieval social order by the early stirrings of what we would come to call “capitalism” left Europeans of all classes uncertain and anxious about their status: social, political, economic, and religious. He connected this to the rise of Protestantism and also to the genesis of something much more relevant to our own disruption-convulsed culture of social-media obsession:
This underlying insecurity resulting from the position of an isolated individual in a hostile world tends to explain the genesis of a character trait which was . . . characteristic of the individual of the Renaissance and not present, at least in the same intensity, in the member of the medieval social structure: his passionate craving for fame.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a march organized by the Women’s March Alliance in Manhattan, January 19, 2019. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)
Sandy Witch?
Sandy Berger?
Sandy Ocrazio.
Kevin Williamson versus Ocasio-Cortez...
it’s impossible to pick a side between those two.
Williamson is the National Review neverTrump cretin who recommended that unemployed blue collar Americans should just go die.
Her name is Sandy and she is actually from Westchester and not Brooklyn. She’s has a made up and fake identity like that other community organizer.
The article mentioned Max Boot (up his rear). He lauded Ocrazio for having great Twitter skills. He is a very ugly man. He couldn’t get a date if he walked into a woman’s prison with a fist full of pardons.
Max ‘Moscow’ Boot, National Review’s Russian Collusion
“The marketing material published in support of the concept — and that’s all the Green New Deal is: an advertising campaign without a product — offers what passes for soaring rhetoric anno Domini 2019, calling for a “new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II.”
Why are they maintaining there is no “product”? They are very clear about what they want: “the document also repeatedly states the Green New Deal will advance non-environmental projects, such as, “social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice.”
What else is there to say?
If you’re a white, straight, fairly well-off Christian, you’re screwed by this bunch.
White women will be as well; for years blacks have been complaining about set-asides for them (they have “white privilege as well), and they have plenty of money to appropriate (steal).
White female Democrats are naively unaware of this dynamic; they are a means to an end for non-whites that hate - and envy - them with a passion.
I'm surprised he didn't add in a pull quote from Viktor Frankl to round of his pastiche of sources.
Oh that is the best erudite insult I have read in so long, my virtue signalling prose will be so grandly burnished by my name dropping and quotes that sort of fit, but damn it I refuse to read all these old farts just to find better contexual quotes dontcha know. So damn funny, SIR you win the interwebs on this day
I met Don Rumsfeld once. He was the CEO of G. D. Searle. I was a buyer from Procter & Gamble looking for favorable terms for a product of theirs. He is a relatively short person. Very affable. He struck me as a very nice person. After reading Dick Cheney’s book, I conclude that Rumsfeld, while a good person, was able to project one persona while actually being a very different person.
Best.
This essay by Kevin Williamson offers great insight into what makes Sandy tick - I think it was excellent and well worth the read.
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