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   Here’s a scoop for you: The so-called “Green New Deal,” onto   
   which 70 leading Democrats have signed, doesn’t exist. Like a   
   salesman parked at a corner hawking a small bottle filled with a   
   mystery substance that will cure everything from insomnia to   
   cancer, the Democratic Party is promoting a fraud-work quilt   
   promising a cure for all.   
      
   In reality, this hoax targeting the liberal base, GenXers and   
   progressives, is nothing more than an elaborate Get Out the Vote   
   organizing effort. As a former community organizer, I respect   
   that work when it’s about real proposals, actual legislation and   
   serious ideas.   
      
   Yet, courtesy of a letter being sent by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-   
   Cortez of New York to Democratic colleagues in the House of   
   Representatives, we now know that there is no package of   
   implementable ideas or policy. What they do have is a press   
   release word salad of platitudes, slogans and talking points.   
      
   Bloomberg reported on the letter, with a revealing headline:   
   “Ocasio-Cortez begins to sketch out details of ‘Green New Deal.’   
   ” That confirms the thing Democrats, including Sens. Kamala D.   
   Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, have   
   endorsed isn’t even formulated yet. As Winston Churchill might   
   note, it’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. It   
   would be more honest to call it the “Green New Hoax.”   
      
   Bloomberg’s first paragraph outlining Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s   
   “blueprint” is at least honest: “Environmental legislation   
   dubbed a ‘Green New Deal’ and championed by Representative   
   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn widespread attention --   
   despite the fact that no one really knows for sure what it is.”   
      
   No one knows, because it doesn’t exist.   
      
   Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes waves on Capitol HillVideo   
   ”‘Next week, we plan to release a resolution that outlines the   
   scope and scale of the Green New Deal,’ according to a letter   
   the New York Democrat sent to colleagues. ‘In it, we call for a   
   national, social, industrial and economic mobilization at a   
   scale not seen since World War II,’ ” Bloomberg reported. “Goals   
   laid out in the letter include reaching net-zero greenhouse gas   
   emissions ‘through a fair and just transition for all   
   communities and workers,’ creating millions of ‘good, high-wage   
   jobs’ while ensuring prosperity and economic security for all,   
   and investment in infrastructure and industry.”   
      
   Sounds like a cultural revolution to me. What’s the “fair and   
   just transition for all communities” she’s talking about? Vague   
   enough to be modeled on Pol Pot or Chairman Mao Zedong or maybe   
   just Martha Stewart. Who knows, and that’s the point.   
      
   “The resolution will also call for clean air and water, climate   
   resiliency, healthy food, access to nature and ‘a sustainable   
   environment for all for generations to come,’ according to the   
   letter. Lastly, the Green New Deal will ‘promote justice and   
   equity by preventing current and repairing historic oppression   
   to frontline and vulnerable communities,” the newswire reported.   
      
   Further proof of the lack of seriousness is this outrageous   
   pitching of “protecting vulnerable communities,” as the young   
   woman in front of this charade has said nothing in opposition to   
   her party moving in several states to legitimize infanticide.   
      
   In December 2018, in a story about the genesis of the scheme,   
   the New Yorker magazine inadvertently exposed the real agenda.   
      
   “Sunrise, founded a year and a half ago by a dozen or so   
   twentysomethings, began its campaign for the Green New Deal last   
   month, when two hundred activists occupied Nancy Pelosi’s office   
   a week after the midterm elections. The movement has allied with   
   the incoming congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. … Inside   
   Luther Place Memorial Church, cheers erupted as activists   
   unfurled a yellow and black ‘green new deal now’ banner from the   
   balcony. The crowd hushed as the first speaker, Varshini   
   Prakash, came to the microphone. Prakash … is one of Sunrise’s   
   co-founders. She later told me that a highlight of her activism   
   career was when she participated in a musical disruption of a   
   Trump administration panel at the United Nations climate   
   conference in Bonn, in 2017…” the New Yorker reported.   
      
   Included in its coverage is this comment from Ms. Prakash, who   
   also happened to be a guest of Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts   
   at the State of the Union address: “‘Our strategy for 2019 is   
   going to be continuing this momentum to build the people power   
   and the political power to make a Green New Deal a political   
      
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