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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt would be fantastic if every Democrat would vote FOR the Green New Deal.
Step up and face the challenge. When they can divide us, they win. Stay the course, stand together.
Once can always vote for somthing in principle and work to refine and improve the policy later.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)green new deal?
I am not sure it is put together yet.
What are they voting for?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)(It's House Resolution 109)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109
Click on the [text] tab to see the entire text.
DeminPennswoods
(15,299 posts)This is the future no doubt about it.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)who works for a giant Saudi owned oil company in Texas. The guy has NEVER been political. Yesterday, a group of us were talking about our tax returns and how much we will probably owe. All of a sudden he starts griping about the Green New Deal using what sounded like talking points he got from someone. I can almost guarantee he is being fed that garbage from his supervisors at his job. It proves to me that these fossil fuel fucks and the billionaire class are worried this plan has teeth, and it's coming to bite them in their dirty asses!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)by virtually all Democrats. They suffered a dreadful setback in 2016, but now that we have control of the house we've once again begun working to turn them into big achievements. These are LEGISLATIVE goals and Republicans implacably opposed to most, though, so Democrats MUST have control of both houses of congress to make them happen, and to hit the ground running on implementation of more state governments.
So it is really good that voices like Ocasio's are bringing awareness to young people who are becoming increasingly engaged and hopefully will come out to vote in significantly larger numbers in 2020. Our chance to vote for all this is on Tuesday, November 2, 2020.
Itm, the GND goals you speak of -- and many important ones it doesn't cover -- are being seriously worked towards by committed experts on congressional committees in state and federal governments who are determined to make them happen. If you read bios on the expertise of committee members, you'll discover that many ran for congress for that very reason. To make it happen. Tragically, 2016 left us mostly dead by the side of the road, but now with control of the house and more states we're revving up again.
Btw, President Obama supported a program called Green New Deal, and the UN also supports a global Green New Deal, though different in that they're specifically about sustainable development and battling climate change. Not to confuse with the political action group's label. But the universal basic income and living wages are absolutely also in the works. Hillary seriously considered implementing a universal basic income in 2016; but feeling the numbers would be better after other big things were tended to, they left it for later in her presidency... Half a billion solar cells on our roofs in the first term for clear sustainable energy and protection against grid attacks was on the list though.
Sigh.
In any case, no matter who inspires each most in the primary, in the GE, no matter who our Democratic nominee is, these economic and environmental goals will be on the ballot.
bdamomma
(63,962 posts)in the Green initiative the rest of the world is moving on with this. And tRump and his minions have oil in their veins. It's as plain as day, they hate "Green" and people have even commented at his SOTU, or hate speech as I would call it, not one word was mentioned about climate change. That's why some states are just moving on their own with new initiatives.