Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well.
So, we all had a giggle last week at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ Green New Deal.
We all had a laugh when that infamous FAQ went up on her website, and then, after being ruthlessly
and justifiably ridiculed, we all laughed again when her team took the FAQ down and started trying to gaslight
the general public, claiming it was a draft version that was accidentally uploaded and conflating
conflating it with a couple of satirical copies floating around.
All of that was very funny.
But what’s not funny is the Green New Deal itself.
Now after reading the FAQ I was fully prepared to dismiss it as simply
aspirational with zero substance.
However, after reading the final copy of the deal itself, I realised I was wrong about it.
In fact, not only was I wrong about the Green New Deal, I'm just generally wrong about
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Now don’t panic!
I haven’t suddenly been turned progressive and magically morphed into a greenie social
justice warrior after one read of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's bill.
I am instead deeply and genuinely concerned that this woman is in such a position
of power and influence, both in legislation and public opinion, and all you Americans watching this
video should be very, very worried about what’s going on in the left wing of the Democratic
Party.
Up until now, my interpretation of Ocasio-Cortez was that she was like any other Millennial
who calls themselves a Democratic Socialist.
That is, confusing the system they have in Scandinavia, which is very high taxes and
endless public services, with actual socialism.
The difference between countries like Sweden and Denmark and Socialist regimes is that
in Denmark and Sweden while they do have high taxes and a big welfare state, private individuals still own the means
of production, and they have a market driven economy.
Socialism, and indeed its less polite, more violent cousin Communism, necessarily require
the State to own the means of production. Not private individuals.
That’s the key difference.
So, under Socialism, you're not allowed to own your own business or work individually; everything
is controlled by the State.
And when you have even slightly corrupt people in power, which inevitably happens when you give people absolute power, that’s
going to create some big problems for your everyday, ordinary, powerless citizen, and we have
seen that time and time again when Socialism has ever been implemented ever throughout all of human history.
It is the greatest ideological failure ever concocted by the human race.
So, what does this have to do with AOC?
Well, there are certain passages in her Green New Deal indicating that far from being
a “democratic” socialist, she’s seems more than a little bit happy to have the State to seize at least some
of the means of production.
She also seems happy to institute a nation-wide indoctrination program to influence people to follow
her State regime.
And she also seems more than happy to physically force American
citizens to give up their private property rights in order to execute her plan.
Let’s get to it then.
The whole thing is dressed up very prettily with abstract aspirational talking points,
like stating its intention is to create millions of high paying jobs, guaranteed healthcare for
all, access to clean water and healthy food, clean air, you know, everything you’d expect
from a hardcore progressive trying desperately to disguise a totally unfeasible and highly
invasive plan.
As I read further, I discovered a few passages that were, while dripping with the usual leftie moral
narrative, really quite troubling.
First, there’s this: The deal wants to promote “(E) to promote justice and equity by stopping
current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples,
communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated
rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with
disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution as “frontline and vulnerable
communities”);”
Okay, that, needless to say, is identity politics on steroids, so already we can see this goes beyond an
environmental plan right into the realms of ideology and intersectionality.
But there’s more to it than that in fact it's crucial, so stick around and remember the words “frontline and vulnerable communities”,
and I will explain later on.
But first: Through this tiny little time-frame of 10 year mobilisation Ocasio-Cortez wants to:
(E) upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to
achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability,
Now think on that for just a moment.
Without clarification to the contrary, “all buildings” includes all houses.
So, over a ten-year period, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is suggesting the government, with
or without the consent of private home owners, force its way in and rebuild or renovate
people’s private residences, whether they like it or not.
AOC would be forcing private citizens to give up autonomy over their own properties
with giving no guarantee that they will actually be able to live in their own houses during the process.
Renovations can be very invasive; often people have to live in temporary accommodation while they're happening.
What does AOC expect to do with all the people who would be displaced by this policy? Does she want to put them in camps or something?
It’s crazy, and an appalling infringement on people's private property rights.
Which reminds me, you know who else didn’t care very much about people's private property rights?
Secondly these two clauses are of note: (C) providing resources, training, and high-quality
education, including higher education, to all people of the United States, with a focus
on frontline and vulnerable communities, so that all people of the United States may be
full and equal participants in the Green New Deal mobilization;
(F) ensuring the use of democratic and participatory processes that are inclusive of and led by
frontline and vulnerable communities and workers to plan, implement, and administer the Green
New Deal.
So, embedded within AOC’s social justice narrative is a calculated push for all citizens
receive a wholly State approved education, with a view not to preparing them to be
free-thinking, autonomous citizens equipped to chase their dreams and fulfil their individual potential,
but to steer them towards complying with and participating in her Green New Deal regime.
Add to that the second excerpt, that is using these frontline and vulnerable communities
to implement the Deal
Gee, I haven’t seen such a comprehensive plan to institute state centralised education since…
The, of course, there’s this little gem: AOC wants to:
(N) ensuring a commercial environment where every businessperson is free from unfair competition
and domination by domestic or international monopolies; and
There, straight up, is the admission that she wants the government to interfere bigly
in the free market.
And of course it's under the guise of helping businesses who are being crushed by large
corporations.
However, anyone with even a basic knowledge of the way these people think will tell you
that it’s simply about getting a needle into the free market in any way they can.
It is all about gaining power for the State.
But possibly, the most insidious thing about this document is the repetition of “frontline
and vulnerable communities”.
If you read the whole bill, and I’ve included it in the video description in case you would like to, that little
phrase pops up again and again.
The document speaks of giving them equity, and having them lead initiatives, and providing
them with education, and redressing historical wrongs and rectifying injustice etc etc.
As such, AOC is doing the usual, and quite evil, regressive leftist thing of using the bad experiences
and insecurities of these communities to manipulate them into thinking they’ve found a saviour they can
rally behind, while uniting them against a common enemy, a non-descript oppressor, which
is most likely the straight white man.
As such, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has succeeded in reframing the Marxist class war between
the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
If this or any bill like it got through, it would be quite self-consciously
setting the groundwork for an old-fashioned Bolshevik revolution, except with AOC’s groups
of choice instead of Russian peasants.
It would be a frontline and vulnerable revolution rather than a proletariat revolution.
Which is why my friends and I have started calling her “Red Cortez”.
Green on the outside, red on the inside.
But there’s something that’s been left out of the discussion of this Green New Deal.
Let’s say, hypothetically, that this or a similar plan actually was implemented, what
happens to the people who don't comply with it?
After all, this kind of policy necessarily requires every single person in that society to be onboard.
But that's a big assumption that everyone is going to sit back, smile, and give the State the
go ahead.
So, what happens to the presumably tens of millions of people who would most likely refuse?
Would there be legal penalties?
Fines?
Incarceration for refusing to let the State have its way with you? Well there'd have to be.
Otherwise the whole grand plan simply would not work.
What if threats of fines or imprisonment didn’t work on everyone?
Remember; America has a little thing called the Second Amendment for situations exactly
like the one Red Cortez is proposing.
To get past this, the government would simply have to have a bigger and more brutal plan to
quash any dissent.
Do not underestimate Red Cortez.
She is far from the misguided Millennial she originally presented herself as.
She is a Socialist in the literal sense of the word, and as such, she cares nothing for
the rights of the individual.
She sees people as cogs in a wheel rather than freethinking autonomous human beings, and she will attempt
to achieve her goal by any means necessary.
And look, I’m not denying that we should probably do something about our emissions.
But this Green new Deal ain’t it.
This is straight up Socialism, and like every other Socialist regime, it is doomed
to fail…but not before it’s destroyed the lives of millions of innocent people in the process.