Posted on 02/25/2019 9:52:43 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Robert Hockett, who worked as an outside adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on the green new deal, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) viral exchange with young activists over the proposal was "unsurprising" and "sad."
Hockett described the 85-year-old Feinstein as "elderly" and an "old timer" in his comments to Hill.TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on "Rising," saying the young people who confronted the senator have much at stake in the battle over climate change.
"When we're younger we tend to have much bigger ideas as to what's possible. We're more energetic, we're less tired when we're younger, and that means we tend to view many more things as feasible than elderly folks do," said Hockett, a professor at Cornell University.
"When an old timer in the Congress sort of poo-poos them or dismisses them, and even is so cynical as to say well you can't vote for me anyway, so I don't care, it's in a certain sense unsurprising, and yet in another sense, very, very sad," he said.
Feinstein's encounter with children, teenagers and adults working with the Sunrise Movement went viral after clips appeared showing her appearing to dismiss the group. Feinstein said at various points of the discussion that she had worked hard on climate change in the past and had just won her election. She also said that the green new deal could not realistically pass Congress, a point that at least some other Democratic lawmakers also appear to share.
Hockett said the young people who had met with Feinstein have got "many more years ahead of them than do some of old-timers, especially like Senator Feinstein."
"I think for that very reason, they have a much greater sense of urgency on the one hand because they're going to have to live with the most profound effects of climate change in a way that old-timers in the Congress are not going to have to."
This kind of scary.
Adults are using young children as their avant-garde who are being programmed by idiot true believers.
This is historic. The New Red Guard meets the Old Fools. I’m wondering if AOC and her crowd will under take their own “Night Of The Long Knives’’?
and Jewish for liberalism is antisemitic and against God. These coming generations of kids will have been indoctrinated and my fear there will be a generation that will not have any problems removing Christians or Jews from this nation and I’m not talking about deporting.
We need to encourage more of this.
Yup. How do we do it though? Here’s a thought. Call our local Democrat member of Congress and say “I think AOC is right , the old people in the Democrat Party need to step aside and...’’, you know? In fact I think I’m going to do that.
This is funny. The torch and pitchfork crowd is at the Democrats gate. They’ll be ripped to shreds when that crowd breaks the gate down.
O thanks for reminding me that I need to go get a quick bite at Taco Bell for those Nacho Fries.
Does that mean “don’t trust anyone over thirty?”
Oct 13, 2019 is that day for Ocasio Cortez. Uh oh.
Note to naysayers: Midnight of one’s birthday begins the next year of one’s age, so she will be 30 plus one second, two seconds, and so on as of that day. Thus “over thirty” despite her being called age thirty.
This IS...the LEFT eating its own...going to need a triple cargo truck full of popcorn between now and 2020.
Radical audience question:
“What brand are your shoes and how much did they cost, Representative Cortez?”
“If there’s something you want, buy it. If there is a deficit or new health care system or pair of $2,000 shoes then just pay for it.”
Hoo boy. Pass the popcorn!
Such respect for wisdom and majurity. The two things these young people lack. What a coincidence
These same leftists would love to make it illegal for Christian parents to have the right to inform their own children of their religious beliefs, raise them in those beliefs, and illegal to homeschool, because homeschool students have the opportunity to escape the hive.
Oh, and they’ve had no problem for decades in forcing people who don’t support unions to fork over dues from their pay which supports the ‘rat party, and no problem for decades in forcing all taxpayers to fund NPB/PBS, with its leftist bias and alliance
The left has no problem with indoctrination, it’s just whose indoctrination which poses a problem for them-it’s either theirs or nothing.
Hockett said the young people who had met with Feinstein have got “many more years ahead of them than do some of old-timers, especially like Senator Feinstein.”...........Yeah, he’s right. What he didn’t say was how it gives young idiots many more years to make the same old stupid mistakes, too.
:)
What’s all this about her being gorgeous and able to get male votes that way?
I mean yeah, if I was 25 and buzzed and it was the end of the night...sure.
But gorgeous?
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