“The World Will End in Twelve Years If We Don’t Address Climate Change”

It must be true because a 29-year-old American female socialist said it was. That was after she said we should eat fewer hamburgers. And that was either after or before she said earning 10 million dollars was “enough.” It’s getting hard to keep track of all the prophecies and advice this newly elected US representative from Queens, NY, who captured 16,000 votes, offers Americans. However, as a former bartender, she’s probably used to handing out free advice to strangers.

Her multiple proposals are so mindless and utopian it’s no wonder so many left-wing politicians have jumped on board. In the Age of Trump, when so many things are going so well for most Americans, the lefties have to scream “fire” to get noticed. It no longer matters to them whether or not their policies make sense, are affordable, or even possible to achieve.

Instead of Freedom, “Free” Stuff
And, when you stop to think about it, it makes sense that a young, mixed-race women should be leading the left. She radiates identity politics, and with her long black hair, bulging eyes behind oversized glasses, and garrulousness, she has the attributes of a bona fide pied piper. In fact, she personifies what the Marxist college professors have been teaching nineteen-year-olds for decades.

Ever since the Sixties, the scruffy, wild-and-wooly bunch who hung out at Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco have found a home as humanities professors, eager to instruct the young-and-restless in the joys of utopian living. Imagine a world in which all you have to do is hang out smoking grass, listening to John Lennon warble “Imagine,” while reading Hermann Hesse’s “Siddhartha.” Meanwhile the government will be sending you monthly checks, picking up your doctor bills, and delivering free contraceptives to your front door.

Though the government may provide you with a job, probably in the government, there’s no need to actually work, when the government provides you with virtually everything you need to not work.

In case you’re beginning to wallow in this lefty dreamland, here’s a pin to pop the bubble. As presidential advisor Sebastian Gorka says, “Never let facts get in the way of a leftwing narrative.”

Predicting the End of Fossil Fuels While Using Them
It’s not just that AOC is leading Democrats to the edge of the cliff, it’s that so many Dems sound as if they’ve just gone to confession. No, not the confession where you receive absolution from the priest. But the one where you admit your intentions openly, as in a therapy session.

What’s so eye-opening about the Dems’ confession is that they’re unabashedly revealing their plans to overtake the government with a kind of totalitarian agenda that involves a major overhaul of our country’s energy system, eliminating the use of fossil fuels in twelve years.

Why twelve, rather than ten or thirty? Well, apparently only the new member of Congress from Queens knows. But it’s no secret. She likes to share her remarkable insights on Instagram, while cooking her macaroni-and-cheese dinners. It’s so interesting to watch her cooking with real fossil fuels, while insisting we no longer will need them in the future. What about electricity? Will we need that to recharge our battery-run cars? And how about coal and natural gas? Won’t we need those to generate electricity?

Don Quixote Rides Again!
If you’ve ever read about or heard of Don Quixote, you know he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be knights in armor. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has a lot in common with the man of La Mancha, whose imagination outstripped his sense of reality. Yet AOC goes beyond, offering all of America what could be termed pie-in-the-sky.

In fact, this young ex-bartender has figured out that by 2031 the entire country will be run by windmills and solar panels. Of course all those oil company workers around the country will be out work. But not to worry, since the government will always provide. And just how will the government provide? With your money of course. So you might as well empty your pockets, because the government, under AOC’s omniscient leadership, will need every cent you’ve got.

For Progressives, It’s Always 1930
As always, when Democrats talk about taxing the rich, they really mean casting the widest net, which has to include the middle class. As John Dillinger once said when asked why he robbed banks, “Because that’s where the money is.”

AOC dubs her plan the Green New Deal. It’s as if she thinks of herself as a young FDR attempting to tame the Great Depression. Except we’re not in a depression, or even a recession. More people are working than ever before. Many available jobs can’t even be filled because of a lack of people to fill them.

The left, therefore, has to create an imaginary world, where the poor are always waiting in bread lines, blacks are always considered slaves, women are always stopped by a glass ceiling, and an endless number of illegals always deserve asylum.

If you’re just a hard-working citizen, forget about your rights. Under the Brave New World, defined by the left, your only purpose is to serve the victims they have carefully assembled to put you in your place. And keep you there.

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