AOC chief admits 'Green New Deal' about socialism, not climate

It's 'a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing'

By Art Moore

The “Green New Deal” co-sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is promoted by its supporters as a means to help save the planet from “climate change.”   But Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff has admitted what should be apparent to anyone who examines its prescriptions: The plan’s true objective is to radically transform America’s free-enterprise economy into a socialist system.

The acknowledgment by Chakrabarti came in an exchange reported by the Washington Post with Sam Ricketts, who directs climate policy for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

The Post explained that Ricketts met with Chakrabarti this spring after Ocasio-Cortez called Inslee’s climate-change plan the “gold standard” in policy.

“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti said............. Klein noted a Senate resolution on the Green New Deal was co-sponsored by six 2020 presidential candidates: Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar.

He argued that while Ocasio-Cortez and her allies are free to make the case for why the U.S. should move toward a socialist economy, they don’t have a right to use the pretext of a global emergency to do so.................To Read More...