The Democratic Party’s emerging radical bloc is alarming, but the leftist group’s youthful intemperance could backfire and re-energize Republicans’ 2020 electoral prospects.
Even before all the hanging chads and miraculously divined ballots have been examined in Florida, newly elected leftist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already engaging in activism in the halls of Congress. On Tuesday morning, the future representative from New York joined a protest organized by the Sunrise Movement outside the offices of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to demand immediate action on climate change — as if the dinosaur wing of the Democratic Party weren’t sufficiently extremist on environmental issues.
Ocasio-Cortez, who validates the maxim “youth is wasted on the young,” is part of the Justice Democrats, which promoted leftist challengers during the 2018 Democratic primary cycle. The Sunrise Movement is demanding House support of a “Green New Deal,” which contemplates forming a committee to write policies aimed at creating jobs by moving the nation off fossil fuels — as counterintuitive as that may strike you.
Waleed Shahid, the Justice Democrats’ communications director, insists that the Democratic Party’s leadership must get serious about the climate and the economy. “Anything less is tantamount to denying the reality of climate change,” said Shahid. “The hopeful part is that we’re ushering in a new generation of leaders into the Democratic Party who understand the urgency and will help build a movement to create the political will for bold action.” Yes, they must get moving before any more of Al Gore’s hysterical doomsday predictions fail.
The adage “with age comes wisdom” is biblically based and objectively observable — except, perhaps, in the case of Pelosi and her old-guard Democrats. They have invited all types of radicals into their coalition, so they can hardly complain when the fruit of their poisonous tree begins to blossom. Accordingly, Pelosi pretended to support this presumptuous upstart’s mini-rebellion.
We are inspired by the energy and activism of the many young activists and advocates leading the way on the climate crisis, which threatens the health, economic security and futures of all our communities,” said Pelosi. “I have recommended to my House Democratic colleagues that we reinstate a select committee to address the climate crisis. … We welcome the presence of these activists, and we strongly urge the Capitol Police to allow them to continue to organize and participate in our democracy.”
Her groveling wasn’t enough to pacify the implacable Justice Democrats, who tweeted: “Our response: Not good enough. Pelosi is reinstating a 2007 committee tasked with investigating the harms of climate change. We don’t need more investigation. We need specific plans matching the urgency and scale mandated by the UN’s IPCC report on catastrophic climate change.”
The good thing about cliches is that, usually based on human experience, they’re often true. So, the current plight of the Pelosi Democrats is that they have made their bed and now have to lie in it. For the next two years, they’re going to be lying in the same bed as the rebels — a bed that has two left sides.
They already show their crap holes when they talk.
More apt would be that they have shit their bed
and now have to lie in it.
Ah come on. The Demonrats showed their hand in Oct during their smear n destroy Kavanaugh campaign, and earlier with their harassment of Trump staff, GOP senators, etc, Crazies Maxine W and Adam S, and yet the GOP wasn’t motivated enough to hold congress earlier this month. Why would failure to show up with enough votes improve in two years? Yeah sure the recent election could have been worse for the GOP (as was predicted), but it also could have / should have been a lot better following the despicable them show in Oct.
Everything is being funneled into a karmic shitstorm.
I guess nobody’s paying attention.
The Demonrats showed their hand when Wilson unveiled his Globaloney Agenda and the passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution which forever (or at least the foreseeable future) destroyed the Federalist ideal and enslaved us to the caprices of the IRS.
The present crop of totalitarian clowns just think that the whole enchilada is ready to swallow and that the masses of morons who believe in the mantra of “Free Shit” will willingly sacrifice themselves on the battlefields to come.
Considering that they’re astute enough to get themselves elected (by hook or by crook), it’s only fair to take them at their word, and to assume that they understand their retarded constituency better than we.
Forewarned if forearmed.
izlamo delenda est …
It’s possible, but it seems just as likely that the more radical they get the more they’ll appeal to the morons and the millennial cretins.
It will get worse before it gets any better. The 2020 election has to be a total blowout by Repubs… otherwise the Dems will contest the results nationwide, both in Federal and state election outcomes. All the sleazy lawyers will come out of the woodwork. 2018 is just a trial run.
It will be chaos — Cloward-Piven on steroids. The Dems LOVE Chaos — only more government can contain the Chaos. USA is in turmoil, martial law perhaps… and who knows what after that? Our enemies, both foreign and domestic, will see a vulnerable USA.
Sorry for the bleak outlook, but Conservatives live in Real-ville.
Actually, they made their bed and groups like the Justice Democrats are going to pull up the covers.
“The Democratic Party’s emerging radical bloc is alarming, but the leftist group’s youthful intemperance could backfire and re-energize Republicans’ 2020 electoral prospects.”
Republicans already are “energized”.
What is going on isn’t about voting. It’s about voting fraud.
They showed their hand with obama. Now they’re showing their ass with Michelle obama.
Rush is certainly more optimistic. It’s very frustrating talking to voters 75 and younger who do not follow current events and blindly vote demo commie.
“…tantamount to denying the existence of climate change…”
Just curious, Waleed, but how can you deny the existence of something that doesn’t exist?
Which is precisely why the Republicans should block-vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. Two more years with her as the face of the Democrat party, plus all the infighting with the Occasional Cortex crowd should just about finish them in 2020.