Okay, that was twelve years ago. It would be interesting to hear her explain any evolution in her views. She sure wasn't wishy-washy about what she thought then.Democratic Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona, once described stay-at-home moms as leeches in a 2006 interview.“These women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends, and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they’re choosing to live that life,” she told Scottsdale nightlife magazine 944. “That’s bullshit. I mean, what the f*** are we really talking about here?”
And Ocasio-Cortez announces to the world that she's gone full Al Gore:
Democratic socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to address global warming the same way America defeated the Nazis during World War II.
Speaking at a campaign event on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez made the case that, since Nazi Germany and global warming are both “existential threats,” the same tactics used against one should be levied against the other.
“So, when we talk about existential threats,” said Ocasio Cortez, “the last time we had a really major existential threat in this country was around World War II. So, we’ve been here before, and we have a blueprint of what we did before. None of these things are new ideas.”
“What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war,” she continued. “And what we did was that we chose to mobilize and industrialize our entire economy and we put hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country.”
So of course, according to the New York Democratic socialist congressional candidate, the “same thing” should work to “get us to 100 percent renewable energy.”
“It may seem like really big, it may seem really ambitious, it may seem very radical, as people love to say, but the fact of the matter is that we’re dealing with a radical truth, and the more we choose to ignore it the worse we are doing by our children and our grandchildren and frankly ourselves,” she concluded.
Go get 'em, Alex!
The only thing she is mistaken about is that the Cold War has been the most recent existential threat...but again, a comparable focused effort is demanded by the threat posed by the well-established fact of climate change.
ReplyDeleteNah. The global climate's not in any kind of trouble that would require humankind to drastically change its ways. We'd be silly not to use the oil we're awash in.
ReplyDeleteI know, right? That is EXACTLY the logic Trump is trying to teach us. Why HAVE all these nuclear weapons if we are not going to USE them? That would be....what's the word you used again...oh, yeah..."silly".
DeleteSo tell me, when you are pretending science doesn't exist, does it help to physically hold your hands over your ears?
SMH