We got a bit of comic relief this week, in the form of the Green New Deal, being pushed by the darling of the progressives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC, as she has become known.  Only it’s not funny.  I tend to credit the notion that the prominence of AOC (Almost Openly Communist) among left-wing nuts, is evidence that the Democrat party is in serious trouble.  Let me make an analogy.  In 2011, after the first 2 years of the Il Duce Obama unpleasantness, I attended a Republican National Lawyer’s Association event in Washington to celebrate the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan.  The name tag they gave us had our names and the State we were from.  More than one person came up to me and gushed, “You’re from New Jersey.  Do you think Chris Christie will run for president?”  They were so hopeful, even desperate, and they viewed the newly elected Governor of New Jersey as the savior of the Republican party.  At the time, I was shocked by the idea that anybody would be counting on a newly elected Governor, who previously was unknown outside of New Jersey, as even a viable presidential candidate, much less a savior.  I concluded that, if Republicans were that desperate for a leader, we were in real trouble.  I was right.  Enter AOC.  Progressives have hitched their wagon to a newly elected 29 year old ignorant imbecile from New York City.  AOC has an opinion on every subject, but she can’t explain her positions on any issue.  She exhibits classic progressive delusions of rectitude, “I feel, therefore I’m right.”  If AOC is the poster-child for the Democrats, then they are in big trouble.  Take the Green New Deal.  Once AOC proposed it, lemming leftists, including announced Democrat presidential candidates, jumped right onboard.  They had to embrace it, no matter what, or risk being declared “unclean” by the inmates running the Democrat asylum.  Problem was the Green New Deal (GND) turned out to be a juvenile fantasy, right up there with a beauty pageant contestant’s promise to work for world peace.  The GND promises many things, all of which are either unattainable or downright stupid.  The centerpiece is the quest to end the use of all fossil fuels in 12 years.  Why?  Well, because global warming is a bigger threat than terrorism. Uh huh.  So that means no more oil, so no more cars or airplanes.  No more natural gas, so no more heat for your home.  Of course, no more coal.  But even that’s not enough.  She’s coming for the cows too.  Too many cows.  Too many farts, and too much methane, so goodbye beef.  We will be moving to green energy sources like windmills and solar power.  But they don’t work?  Well, you take the good with the bad.  But wait, there’s more.  There will be guaranteed jobs for those who want to work, and guaranteed incomes for those unwilling to work, yet willing to be paid to do nothing.  Oh yes, and also, free healthcare and free college tuition.  Now, many of the progressive masterminds running for president endorsed the GND before giving any thought to its contents.  But somebody ought to think about it.  I’ll try.  This mess derives from the Green Party.  This from their website, “The Green New Deal will convert the decaying fossil fuel economy into a new, green economy that is environmentally sustainable, economically secure and socially just.  The Green New Deal starts with transitioning to 100% green renewable energy (no nukes or natural gas) by 2030.  It would immediately halt any investment in fossil fuels (including natural gas) and related infrastructure.  The Green New Deal will guarantee full employment and generate up to 20 million new, living-wage jobs, as well as make the government the employer of last resort with a much-needed major public jobs program.”  I always wonder what world progressives live in.  It can’t be our world.  In our world, the fossil fuel economy is thriving, and more people are employed than ever before.  Indeed, it’s thriving principally because we lead the world in fossil fuel production.  Here’s the part AOC really likes.  “The transition to 100% clean energy will foster democratic control of our energy system, rather than maximizing profits for energy corporations, banks and hedge funds.  It will promote clean energy as a human right and a common good.”  Let me translate.  The government will take over all corporations, and nationalize energy production.”  That plan worked out well in Venezuela.  Clean energy will be a human right.  It’s all about equality, and under the GND, we’ll all be equally cold, miserable, and unable to travel.  Well, not all of us.  AOC says that her billionaire bolshevik friends can keep their private planes.  So let’s recap.  Government control over industry and finance (that worked great in the Soviet Union), and guaranteed jobs.  Okay, so, after we close down the coal industry, the oil industry, the natural gas and nuclear industries, the automotive industry, the aviation industry, and the beef industry (there goes McDonald’s), exactly where are the newly unemployed and impoverished serfs of America supposed to work?  Presumably we’ll be all retrained, at no cost of course, to operate windmills.  It’s really hard to believe any candidate for public office would support such crap, and yet they say they do.  They’re for all the pie in the sky giveaways, at a cost of, who knows, $100 trillion or more?  They’d gladly take over private industry, for the public good of course, but they’re not Socialists or Communists, oh no.  These are the people who think they have to destroy America in order to save it.  They’ll take control of every aspect of your life.  They’ll steal every bit of your personal liberty, they’ll take your job, confiscate your wealth, destroy your life’s work, and sentence your children and grandchildren to slavery, while all the time promising you that it’s all very “democratic.”  Pay no attention to that 29 year old imbecile behind the curtain.  The great and powerful Greens know what’s best.  Windmill workers of the world unite!  You have nothing to lose but your Country.