by CHQ Staff
We’ve told CHQ readers about the deleterious effects of the “Green New Deal,” a Socialist plan aimed at taking hold of American economic life under the guise of drastically reducing carbon emissions in the next ten years.
One of the principle reasons Democrats have launched the “Green New Deal” is because they think climate change hysteria among young people has reached critical mass politically and it is time to capture those votes.
“Climate change is the biggest threat to my future. And just because I can’t vote right now, that doesn’t mean I don’t have a voice. I’m speaking from the perspective of someone who is scared and afraid for their future,” Lily Gardner, a 15-year-old student from Eastern Kentucky, told Refinery29 of why she joined a protest outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. “It’s not a question of who knows more or who has been in the business for longer, it’s the question of who is going to be disproportionately impacted by climate change. When people don’t take me seriously, they are not taking my future seriously.”
The “Green New Deal” has already received the endorsements of Democrat presidential candidates, like Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, so our friends at Campus Reform, the group that exposes the liberal bias and abuse against conservatives on America’s colleges and universities decided to go to a college campus and ask students what they think of the “Green New Deal.”
Wanting to know if the same people who support the New Green Deal would still support it after hearing what was actually in it, Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips headed to the University of Miami to find out.
Some of the college students made clear, like the high school student quoted above, that they perceive global warming as an apocalyptic concern. “I think if we didn’t do that, then we’re going to be killing ourselves, basically,” said one student. “So, we need to take care of ourselves.”
“Anything that would reduce our dependence on fossil fuels is really important,” agreed another. “I definitely support this movement,” said one student generally.
“I like that it’s progressive, that it’s gonna push the world forward,” another student said, while another added, “just from knowing who’s endorsed it and some other little things, it sounds great.”
“I view it favorably. I think that we need to cut our reliance on fossil fuels,” said another.
However, when asked by Phillips about the Green New Deal’s ultimate goals of eliminating all use of fossil fuels, including natural gas, in the next decade and other radical elements, the students’ enthusiasm about the plan quickly dwindled.
“That’s a reach” was the consensus opinion.
Some of the strongest negative responses came to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s since-deleted FAQ that included the plan to give every American “economic security” even if they are “unable or unwilling to work.”
Upon hearing that the students quickly changed to saying, “if you’re not willing to contribute to society other people should not pay for you” and “people definitely need to get a job and need to work.”
As the Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti explained, the “Green New Deal” veers away from the “green,” and into, well, the red. Included in the “supplemental” part of the proposed legislation are a handful of fully-socialist programs including:
Job training and education for all
“Direct investments in frontline and deindustrialized communities” that would inevitably feel the pain of eliminating industries such as coal and natural gas
A full complement of union jobs (the “Green New Deal” proposes no jobs that are not unionized, provide a “fair wage,” or involve hiring foreign workers)
A guaranteed job with “family-sustaining wages” for all Americans, particularly for those “unable” and, more importantly, “unwilling” to work
“Safe, affordable, and adequate housing” for every American
And to top it off, “high-quality health care, housing, economic security, and clean air, clean water, healthy food, and nature to all”
Talk radio Superstar Rush Limbaugh has regularly visited the subject of children being scared to death over bogus claims of climate change Armageddon and it is worth reviewing some of his comments in light of the Campus Reform video.
In the segment “Global Warming Hoaxers to Traumatized Kids: Cure Climate Anxiety with Activism” from May 6, 2014 Rush explained how children have been scared into “climate change” activism:
RUSH: Let us review how the left has attempted to corral people to agree with them and sweep them up into this political movement that’s called climate change. It used to be called global warming, and then when the warming stopped they had to change the term. The main technique that they’ve used is fear combined with guilt, and it has worked well. They have approached people, not directly, but in the form of just everyday news stories, blog posts, movies, cartoon shows, television shows. (Emphasis ours)
The idea is that humanity’s destroying the planet, and not just any humanity, but highly advanced, economically highly advanced humanity is destroying the planet, primarily the United States. Capitalism, where people’s progress, economic progress, is destructive to the planet. This has been the message. We’re destroying it, greenhouse gases, with the giant cars and trucks that we drive and all the airplanes that we’re flying and all the miles we’re flying and all the fossil fuels that we’re burning. We’ve got 10 years or 20 years or 30 years or 50 years or a hundred years, depending on the report, to fix it or we’re all gonna die. (Emphasis ours)
And then the polar bears are dying, and they put up fraudulent pictures of polar bears on little ice floes, three square feet, claiming that’s all that’s left for Little Timmy the polar bear. And of course giant, total, fraudulent lies, all designed to impose guilt and fear, even among kids. I mean, Ted Turner was one of the early entrances into this with his cartoon series on Saturday morning called Captain Planet. It was about a guy saving the world from evil corporate CEOs who were destroying it simply by running their businesses. Capitalists, Republicans, conservatives didn’t care what they destroyed, didn’t care who they destroyed. All they wanted was to get rich and make everybody else poorer.
The problem for Democrats is now obvious: Having created their army of brainwashed little climate change monsters, the have to keep moving Left to satisfy their appetite for bigger government, more regulations and more laws and more limits on what we can do, more restrictions on what we can think and say and become, and the “Green New Deal” is just the start.
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Photo “Green New Deal Supporters” by Charles Edward Miller. CC BY-SA 2.0.
