Ocasio-Cortez (et al's) Green New Deal has momentum

[DemocracyMouse]

Save a planet AND stick it to the 1%? Americans prove they care... if you don’t mention that Democrats initiated the Green New Deal:

Green New Deal Has Overwhelming Bipartisan Support, Poll Finds. At Least, For Now.

Sixty-four percent of Republicans — including 57 percent of conservative Republicans — back the core tenets of the sweeping proposal.

By Alexander C. Kaufman

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c169f2ae4b05d7e5d8332a5

The Green New Deal is the most popular policy hardly anyone has heard of yet. Eighty-two percent of Americans say they have heard “nothing at all” about the sweeping proposal to generate 100 percent of the nation’s electricity from clean sources within the next 10 years, upgrade the United States’ power grid, invest in energy-efficiency and renewable technology, and provide training for jobs in the new, green economy. But when asked “how much do you support or oppose” the aforementioned suite of policies, 81 percent of registered voters say they either “somewhat support” or “strongly support” the plan, according to new survey results shared exclusively with HuffPost from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University.

Ninety-two percent of Democrats supported the idea, including 93 percent of liberal Democrats and 90 percent of moderate-to-conservative Democrats. But 64 percent of Republicans ― including 75 percent of moderate-to-liberal Republicans and 57 percent of conservative Republicans ― also backed the policy goals outlined in the Green New Deal. Eighty-eight percent of independents endorsed the policies as well.

“Given that most Americans have strong support for the components and ideas of the Green New Deal, it becomes a communication strategy problem,” Abel Gustafson, a postdoctoral associate at Yale who co-authored a report on the findings, said by phone Sunday. “From here, it’s about how you can pitch it so you can maintain that bipartisan support throughout the rest of the process.”

[beachbum bob]

1. people really think McConnel or trump care??

no legislation going to passed into law into they are not in power

[DemocracyMouse]

2. There's a lot going on that doesn't involve Trump.

We don’t have to sit around watching the Trump shit show as if the entertainment it provides is the only thing of national concern. There’s a struggling working class, hungry children, and a planet to save. While the Trump/Republican klown car goes through a slow motion crash we need to be preparing campaigns and legislation for what follows.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

3. Long article that never says

What th Green New Deal is. Even calls it “the most popular policy hardly anyone has heard of yet”, and then proceeds not to tell you what it proposes.

[DemocracyMouse]

4. Here's more on the Green New Deal

From The Atlantic:

The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting

After years of infighting, the Democrats may finally have found an environmental consensus in the Green New Deal. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-winning-climate-strategy/576514/

[murielm99]

5. In addition to not telling us what it is,

it does not say, at least not that I can find, that it belongs to AOC (et. al.). Et al?

AOC has not yet served one day in Congess.