Socialist Candidates Want To Resurrect Green New Deal Corpse

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Every time you think the energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party can’t possibly get any crazier, they go and fool you again. 

Politico’s E&E News published an article Friday with a  headline that should scare the bejeebers out of anyone who hopes for sanity in energy policy: “Progressives look to recharge the Green New Deal for the AI era.” 

The piece quotes Melat Kiros, the socialist who unseated longtime incumbent Democratic Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette in the party’s recent Colorado primary as saying, “The Green New Deal, frankly, is a floor now, not a ceiling, for what we need to actually be looking at doing.”

This, of course, parrots the classic mantra of every generation of new socialists, who, when presented with the reality that socialism fails disastrously everywhere it is tried, invariably claim that it just hasn’t been done the right way, and they know better. 

But they never really do know better. 

Let’s be clear: what any version of the Green New Deal introduced by........

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