A recent survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University found that a whopping 81 percent of voters said they either “strongly support” (40 percent) or “somewhat support” (41 percent) the Green New Deal, including 64 percent of Republicans (and even 57 percent of conservative Republicans). Bush speechwriter - and torture advocate - Marc Thiessen claims that the Green New Deal will “make the Democrats unelectable in 2020.” The Economist agrees: “The bold plan could make the party unelectable in conservative-leaning states.” The Green New Deal “will not pass the Senate, and you can take that back to whoever sent you here and tell them,” a testy Diane Feinstein, the senior and supposedly “ moderate” Democratic senator from California, told a bunch of kids in a viral video.īut here is the reality: The Green New Deal is extremely popular and has massive bipartisan support. They are the true centrists, the real moderates they represent the actual political middle.ĭon’t believe me? Take Ocasio-Cortez’s signature issue: the Green New Deal. The inconvenient truth that our lazy media elites do so much to ignore is that Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren are much closer in their views to the vast majority of ordinary Americans than the Bloombergs or the Bidens. So too is Elizabeth Warren - dismissed as a “radical extremist” ( Las Vegas Review-Journal) and a “class warrior” ( Fox News). And Bernie Sanders is centrist too - smeared as an “ideologue” ( The Economist) and “dangerously far left” ( Chicago Tribune). “He is not the centrist,” continued Hanauer. What Howard Schultz represents, the centrism that he represents, is really just trickle-down economics.” “When you advocate for economic policies that benefit the broad majority of citizens, that’s true centrism. “It’s easy to call what AOC is doing as far-lefty, but nothing could be farther from the truth,” Nick Hanauer, the venture capitalist and progressive activist, told MSNBC in January. This is a brazen distortion of reality, a shameless and demonstrable lie that is repeated day after day in newspaper op-eds and cable news headlines. Got that? Biden, Schultz and Co., we are told, sit firmly in the middle of American politics Ocasio-Cortez stands far out on its fringes. She’s been dubbed a member of the “loony left” ( Washington Post), a “progressive firebrand” ( Reuters), and a “liberal bomb thrower” ( New York Times). Now Google the freshman House Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Shultz is gifted with high-profile interview slots to make his “ centrist independent” pitch to voters. Biden is the “quintessential centrist” ( CNN) and the “last hurrah for moderate Democrats” ( New York magazine). Klobuchar is the “straight-shooting pragmatist” ( Time). Google the words “moderate” or “centrist” and a small group of names will instantly appear: Michael Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden, and, yes, Howard Schultz.īloomberg is considered a “centrist thought leader” ( Vanity Fair). politics, and especially the Democratic Party? 5, 2019.ĭo you know what really annoys me about the media’s coverage of U.S. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrives to hear the president deliver his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb.
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