Posted on 08/29/2019 6:51:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 2008, Rahm Emanuel, then-president-elect Barack Obama’s newly named chief of staff, uttered the infamous phrase: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Emanuel was referring to the economic crisis that precipitated Obama’s 2008 election victory. Once in office, the Obama administration used the economic upheaval to rapidly expand government power through several boondoggle programs. Remember the $787 billion “stimulus” package? How about “Cash for Clunkers?”
Eleven years after Emanuel’s notorious quip, it seems 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking a page out of the Emanuel political playbook. In other words, Bernie is trying to use a so-called climate crisis to implement a series of socialistic programs, under the banner of his newly released “Green New Deal” (GND).
However, there is a key difference between the circumstances Obama faced during his 2008 presidential run and Sanders’ 2020 quest for the presidency. In 2008, there was a legitimate economic crisis. In 2020, there is not a climate crisis.
In fact, this could be the very reason why Sanders begins his GND with, “The climate crisis is not only the single greatest challenge facing our country; it is also our single greatest opportunity to build a more just and equitable future, but we must act immediately.”
In one sentence, Sanders declares a climate crisis and then uses it as an excuse to implement his socialistic agenda. This is called framing the argument on their terms, something the Left does quite well.
Sanders’ proposal is rife with fearmongering and full of hyperbolic language.
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Actually, it is a way of creating a Global Tax run by the UN which then becomes a Slush Fund to drive Socialism Globally all run by the UN
Everything is a ruse to grow government.
Not just for Bernie. For all Gaia Worshipping global socialist watermelons.
白左
It’s just a ruse to grow government all over the world.
Baizuo 白左Baizuo (pronounced "bye-tswaw") is a Chinese epithet meaning a naive western educated person who advocates for peace, equality, etc. in order to satisfy his self-absorption with his own moral superiority.
A baizuo is obsessed with such things as immigration, minorities, LGBT, the environment, multiculturalism, and political correctness, et al. to the extent that they import backwards values.
The Chinese see the baizuo as ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours.
Grow government name one democrat president who didn’t.
There was a time when we could have eliminated these Bolshevik S.O.B.s. Their ideology is a pox on society.
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