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The Right-wingers’ Opposition To The Green New Deal Is Understandable
It is understandable why it is the young people elected to congress feel the urgency to pass the Green New Deal. But getting it past those congressional Republicans and Democrats opposing the bill will be extremely difficult. Those politicians’ votes are owned by the fossil fuel industry, and since they will all be dead before the effects of climate change become irreversible, they don’t give a sh!t if they leave behind a wasteland for their children, and especially their grandchildren.
As usual, our elected representatives put the short-term corporate profits ahead of the well being of average Americans. In the case of the Green New Deal, these self-serving congressmen (and women) are telling countless future generations to go fvck themselves so as to protect the next fifteen years of profits for the fossil fuel fat cats.
Unfortunately, the conservatives and most centrists are fine with this, because, like the a$$holes in congress these conservatives and centrists will all be dead before the effects of climate change become irreversible, so they don’t give a sh!t if they leave behind a wasteland for their children, and especially their grandchildren either.
However, in defense of the right-wingers’ and centrists’ indefensible position on the Green New Deal, their nineteenth century abilities do not translate well to twenty-first century jobs in technology. So, digging coal, grunt work on oil drilling rigs, and other jobs that require a strong back and little intelligence fit well in the right-wingers’ and most centrists’ wheelhouse.
These and other jobs that are truly obsolete, when viewed through the eyes of those capable of employment in renewable energy, the poor souls who must poison the environment to maintain a roof over their head and food on the table, must be pitied by the young people, whose future these unskilled millions are destroying.
The Green New Deal, like any legislation that threatens the quarterly bonuses of corporate big wigs, will be squelched by the GOP before any consideration is given, because that is Job One for them. As for the Democrats, it’s those who blindly assist the congressional Republicans’ efforts, and are reelected time after time after time because they sold themselves to the ruling billionaire class and so, receive the political contributions needed to campaign.
If AOC and her Squad remain true to their constituents, the small donations given toward their reelection campaigns should be adequate. They will be hated by the right-wingers and most centrists for their unbending devotion to their communities, but she and her Squad consistently work for their voters’ interests, and their supporters can see this. Their supporters also see how the ruling billionaire class controls all of the congressional Republicans and all but a handful of the Democrats.
If the young people of this country can vote the boomers out of office before it’s too late, AOC and her Squad, with the help of others from their generation elected to congress, could very well reverse the massive damage done to the United States by the thoughtless and greedy Baby Boomers.
Given the course the boomers have taken and are taking this country, the young people might want the novel coronavirus to stay a while. The impeached president trump’s intentional mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic might just be what AOC, her Squad, and future generations needed to help stop the Baby Boomers’ endless greed and stupidity.
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The Right-wingers’ Opposition To The Green New Deal Is Understandable
It is understandable why it is the young people elected to congress feel the urgency to pass the Green New Deal. But getting it past those congressional Republicans and Democrats opposing the bill will be extremely difficult. Those politicians’ votes are owned by the fossil fuel industry, and since they will all be dead before the effects of climate change become irreversible, they don’t give a sh!t if they leave behind a wasteland for their children, and especially their grandchildren.
As usual, our elected representatives put the short-term corporate profits ahead of the well being of average Americans. In the case of the Green New Deal, these self-serving congressmen (and women) are telling countless future generations to go fvck themselves so as to protect the next fifteen years of profits for the fossil fuel fat cats.
Unfortunately, the conservatives and most centrists are fine with this, because, like the a$$holes in congress these conservatives and centrists will all be dead before the effects of climate change become irreversible, so they don’t give a sh!t if they leave behind a wasteland for their children, and especially their grandchildren either.
However, in defense of the right-wingers’ and centrists’ indefensible position on the Green New Deal, their nineteenth century abilities do not translate well to twenty-first century jobs in technology. So, digging coal, grunt work on oil drilling rigs, and other jobs that require a strong back and little intelligence fit well in the right-wingers’ and most centrists’ wheelhouse.
These and other jobs that are truly obsolete, when viewed through the eyes of those capable of employment in renewable energy, the poor souls who must poison the environment to maintain a roof over their head and food on the table, must be pitied by the young people, whose future these unskilled millions are destroying.
The Green New Deal, like any legislation that threatens the quarterly bonuses of corporate big wigs, will be squelched by the GOP before any consideration is given, because that is Job One for them. As for the Democrats, it’s those who blindly assist the congressional Republicans’ efforts, and are reelected time after time after time because they sold themselves to the ruling billionaire class and so, receive the political contributions needed to campaign.
If AOC and her Squad remain true to their constituents, the small donations given toward their reelection campaigns should be adequate. They will be hated by the right-wingers and most centrists for their unbending devotion to their communities, but she and her Squad consistently work for their voters’ interests, and their supporters can see this. Their supporters also see how the ruling billionaire class controls all of the congressional Republicans and all but a handful of the Democrats.
If the young people of this country can vote the boomers out of office before it’s too late, AOC and her Squad, with the help of others from their generation elected to congress, could very well reverse the massive damage done to the United States by the thoughtless and greedy Baby Boomers.
Given the course the boomers have taken and are taking this country, the young people might want the novel coronavirus to stay a while. The impeached president trump’s intentional mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic might just be what AOC, her Squad, and future generations needed to help stop the Baby Boomers’ endless greed and stupidity.
The 3 Democrats Who Voted Against the Green New Deal
They contributed to its decisive defeat in the Senate on Tuesday, 57–0.
www.theatlantic.com
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