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If you haven’t gotten enough of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being silly on the Green New Deal, here’s Cory Booker

(Daily Caller) Democratic Sen. Cory Booker appeared to compare adopting the so-called Green New Deal with fighting the Nazi regime.

“Our planet is in peril, and we need to be bold,” Booker said at a Friday campaign event in Iowa. There are a lot of people who are critical of the deal. Critics claim “it’s too impractical, and it’s too expensive.”

“And when the planet has been in peril in the past, who came forward to save Earth … from the scourge of Nazis and totalitarian regimes?” Booker asked rhetorically. “We came forward.”

“We came forward with the Marshal Plan,” he added, referring to a U.S. program concocted during the 1940s to rebuild parts of German and other European countries bombed out during World War II.

The GND, which was introduced Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, calls for a “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global warming. A separate fact sheet published online claims the plan would “mobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.”

Of course, need it be said that the threat from the Nazis was real? Further, that the plans to both fight the Nazis and rebuild Europe were not based on “unicorn farts and rainbow stew”, but things that were actually in the realm of reality?

“Reach for the moon! Reach for the stars! Even if you come up short, at least you’ll be hovering above the ground! You’ll be soaring, young man!” https://t.co/6VjtjK0tG5

— Jerry Dunleavy ???????? (@JerryDunleavy) February 8, 2019

James Delingpole notes of the GND

Not everyone who believes in man-made climate change is a full on Commie. Some are merely useful idiots. But whatever reason people may have for supporting the scam – greed, stupidity, virtue-signalling, idiot leftist teachers – the net result is the same: bigger government, higher taxes, more regulation, lower standards of living. Exactly like you’d get under communism, in fact.

So color me completely unshocked by the Green New Deal. It looks like a revamped Communist Manifesto because that’s exactly what it is.

If implemented, the size of government would increase to levels never before seen in a Western economy. The state’s control of everything from wage levels to how businesses are run to your personal freedoms would be total. There’s no mention of gulags or political prisoners or secret police but of course those would inevitably follow because how else would the state have a hope of enforcing measures which freedom loving Americans would naturally resist?

This is what I’ve been saying for well over a decade, and a major reason why I switched from being a Believer in anthropogenic global warming/climate change. Everything seemed to be about more and bigger government with more powers and more taxes/fees. How much in the way of fossil fuels will Brave Sir Spartacus used during his campaign?